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At the end of June 2023, a video dispersed on social networks, which allegedly captures a large poster on Fifth Avenue, where it is claimed: there will be no war without the Ukrainian president. We learned whether this is a genuine video.
The eight -second entry was encouraged on June 29. It captures people who cross the intersection, stated in New York. On the facade of one of the nearby houses, a large advertising banner is noticeable, on which the phrase “No Zelensky No War” is twice (“No [Vladimir] Zelensky - there is no war”).
This video was posted by the pro-Khmrelev Telegram channels "Ne. Sahar"(308,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Putin in Telegram"(232 000),"Zakharevich"(107 000),"Polish people 🅉"(67 000),"Front line"(44,000),"I'm shocked"(33,000),"Denacification UA"(25,000),"Observer👁Live"(25,000),"Echo of war"(24,000),"My country is Russia 🇷🇺"(24,000),"Summary"(18,000),"Pavel Onishchenko"(13,000) and others. Similar posts are found on other platforms - in"VKontakte"(Examples here, here And here), Twitter And "Classmates", As well as on Rutube (here And here) and some news sites.
The place of shooting of the video is really New York, namely the intersection of the flagship store Tiffany & Co. jewelry brand located At the intersection of the 57th street and Fifth Avenue. At the same time, construction forests are visible in the dispersed video, which removed at least a few months ago. At the end of April 2023 took place The opening ceremony of the store after almost four -year -old Repair.
How Noticed Our colleagues from the project “Myth Detector”, on coincidence on the morning of June 29, that is, on the day the video with a banner began, next to this store It happened fire. According to the New York Fire Service, an underground transformer caught fire, but fire inside the building did not spread. The fire was captured by numerous locals in social networks and showed American media, among which CBS New York, ABC News, The Wall Street Journal And Fox Business - On all photo and video materials published by them on the facade of the building Tiffany & Co. There are no building forests, no banner about the war and Zelensky.
Analyzing the viral video, a factor from the DPA agency InstalledWhat is based on a fragment of a 43-minute video called “Walking through New York [as] 4K. Fifth Avenue. People, cars and sounds of the street. ” The original was published On the Coolvision YouTube channel on July 15, 2021. The passage of interest to us It begins at the mark 01:06, while on the building Visible A banner with the image of a girl, and not with the words "there is no Zelensky - there is no war." Apparently, unknown authors changed genuine personnel using a video editor.
The earliest record of those that traveled “verified” we found in the Telegram channel Putin TG Team (70,000), where the video was published on June 29, 2023 at 12:15 pm Moscow time. This channel is well familiar to our regular readers, because as the primary source and distributor of fakes and other misinformation it mentioned More than in 40 texts are “tested”.
Update of July 12, 2023. The editors of "Verified" found Telegram channels in which the video appeared earlier than in Putin TG Team. For example, in the channel "Talipov 𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 🅉" (59,000 views) the post was published June 29 at 11:12 pm Moscow time.
The list of large channels that placed a fake video is also not limited to listed at the beginning of the analysis. The same video posted as "Sanya in Florida"(378 000),"Uncle Glory"(186 000),"Bullet"(158 000),"Scott Ritter in Telegram"(158 000),"What happened?"(127 000),"Ostashko! Important"(115 000),"Ivan Utenkov"(110 000),"Bocharik (yeah, the same)"(108 000) and"From the scene"(94,000).
This is far from the first fake video associated with the placement of banners about Zelensky in New York. For example, earlier we denied reports of video that allegedly appeared on the media facades on Times Square Square, where the president of Ukraine was called "Black hole" And "Pis Duke".
Photo on the cover: screenshot "Checked" / social networks
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