In August 2023, reports appeared that French journalists were discussing the demand of Ukrainians to ban a well -known game, since it was created in the USSR and supposedly creates a positive image of Russia. We checked the viral video for reliability.
31-second video began to spread in early August. For example, this is how it was commented on in the Telegram channel Voblya (152,000 views at the time of writing this parsing): “The French are in full seriousness whether the Tetris’s game should be“ canceled ”at the request of the Ukrainians ... Ukrainians saw Russian propaganda in the popularity of Tetris. And they believe that it needs to be urgently canceled, because Tetris was created by a Soviet citizen, and any playing Tetris supports Russia. Channel TG Team Russia (55,000) added that the requirement of the prohibition of the game is the next manifestation of "Ukrainian bingo - what else to cancel Russian."
Similar publications appeared in the television and radio host channel Armen Gasparyan (79,000 views), "DPR 🅉 info 🇷🇺"(45,000),"Summary"(17,000) and"Shaman Rahu"(3300), as well as in VKontakte (examples here, here And here), "Classmates" (here, here And here) And "Zen".
The viral record is a video allegedly created by the French edition of 20 minute - its logo is placed in the right upper part of the recording. In the video against the background of various frames, inscriptions appear that make up the following text:
Tetris creates a positive image of Russia?
The Ukrainian Center for Combating misinformation requires prohibiting the Tetris game, since Tetris was created by Soviet programmer Alexei Pazhitnov in 1984. Ukrainians are sure that, buying this game, users positively affect the image of Russia in the world. However, they also finance Russian aggression against Ukraine. Over the entire history of the game, more than 43 million copies were sold, and Nintendo earned about $ 3 billion. In 2023, the film “Tetris” was released at Apple TV+, which increased users' interest in the Tetris game.
"Verified" could not find this video or its mention not at the official site French newspaper, nor on its media resources, including verified accounts in X (Twitter), Facebook, Instagramas well as on YouTube And Dailymotion. In addition, the requirement to prohibit Tetris is absent on site and in social networks Ukrainian Center for Combating Disinformation (CPD). “Verified” turned for comments to 20 minute and CPP, but at the time of publication this analysis did not receive answers.
Although at first glance, the video really visually resembles the style of genuine rollers of 20 minute, we found technical inconsistencies in it. For example, the layered text there is written in different fonts, and sometimes even in the same sentence. However, none of these fonts corresponds to what is used in real publications of the French publication. Differences are most clearly visible, for example, by the letters A, E and G, as well as numbers.
In addition, the number of copies of Tetrisa sold in a fake video is incorrectly indicated. It uses a screenshot of the video “The best-selling video games of all time from 1989 to 2019” from the Data Is Beautiful YouTube channel, where Given Sales chronology on PCs and game consoles without taking into account mobile applications. According to the calculations of the author of the video, by the third quarter of 2019, the sold out circulation of Tetris amounted to almost 60 million copies, and more than 43 million was The game WII FIT - this number can be seen in the background of fake video. On the official website Tetris ApprovedThat more than 520 million copies of the game were sold around the world without specifying platforms.
The very statement that the buyers of Tetris sponsor Russian aggression against Ukraine sounds strange. In 1984, the game really Created Soviet programmer Alexei Pazhitnov, but later he He moved Live in the USA and in 1996 became The co -founder of the American company The Tetris Company. By words Pazhitnova, it is his company who decides who to give a license to the game. Moreover, back in March 2022, he condemned Full -scale invasion of Russia to Ukraine:
I am turning to you, my friends and colleagues. The dirty bloody war, which is going on now in Ukraine, is so terrible that no one can stay away. The soulless crazy dictator that started this evil is a war criminal and will be stopped and convicted. It is very sad and embarrassing that most people in Russia still do not understand this. I am sure that Putin and his hated regime fall in Ukraine and, I hope, a normal peaceful way of life will be restored in Russia.
Once again, the earliest publication with a fake, which was able to track "verified", we found in the Telegram channel "Before everyone else. Well, almost. Special operation". There, the post with the video was posted on August 7, 2023 at 10:00 Moscow time and scored almost 12,000 views. This channel is one of the record holders for the spread of fakes, it mentioned About 70 of our analysis.
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