In early October 2023, publications appeared that, after a joke addressed to the President of Ukraine, the American billionaire was included in the list of people who pose a threat to the country's national security. We found out if this is so.
Similar posts appeared on social networks on October 2, 2023. Most often, they consist of a screenshot (or part of it), allegedly made on the Mirotelorets website, which indicates the data of Tesla and SpaceX CEO. Typically, the image is accompanied by the following text: “The American businessman Ilon Mask, whose company in fact, was introduced into the base of the Ukrainian“ peacekeeper ”. Provided Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of a stable satellite connection. " At the same time, occasionally authors of posts Addthat the mask was removed from the base after 15 minutes.
Such recordings were most widely used in Telegram. They appeared in the channels "Ne. Sahar"(289,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Uncle Glory"(215 000),"Truthfulness"(206 000),"Bullet"(152 000), Voblya (139 000), Zergulio (127,000), "Z-News | Army 🅉 18+"(115 000),"Ivan Utenkov"(103,000),"Peacemaker"(90 000),"Yakov Kedmi"(77 000),"Release Kraken!"(65 000),"Tucker Carlson"(63,000),"Military observer"(56 000),"Live broadcast"(46,000, deleted),"The first patriotic"(46,000),"Ax | Policy"(43,000),"Summarians of Yuri Podolyaki"(41 000), TG Team Russia (39,000) and "Denacification UA"(28 000). Among the media and news sites about adding a mask to the list of enemies of Ukraine were reported Pravda.ru, "Tsargrad","ZOV Kherson" And Vologda-Poisk. There are such posts on VKontakte (examples here And here).
On the night of October 2, 2023 in his social network X (formerly Twitter), Ilon Musk Placed The meme, which, by the time of writing of this analysis, has gained more than 90 million views. The image is based on the viral photo A schoolchild with swollen veins-usually she is used in jokes about people who really want to do or say something. In the mask version, the teenager’s face is replaced by the face of Vladimir Zelensky, and the text says: “When five minutes have passed, and you did not ask for help for a billion dollars.”
The reaction of the Ukrainian side was not long in coming. So, speaker of the Ukrainian parliament Ruslan Stefanchuk reputed Twit Mask with the signature: “The case when the dude tried to conquer the Cosmos, but something went wrong, and five minutes later he was along his ears in shit,” and the official account Verkhovna Rada Ukraine Placed (the publication has already been deleted) similar to the meme with a portrait of a businessman and the accusation of the spread of Russian propaganda. At the same time, in the pro -Kremlin segment of the Internet there were assumptions that now the mask would be added to the Peacemaker base. For example, such posts appeared in Telegram channels Zergulio And "Vladimir Rogov".
Website "Peacemaker»Appeared in 2014. The resource that activists conduct is positioning itself as a "Center for the study of signs of crimes against the national security of Ukraine, peace, security of mankind and international law and order." The site has an unofficial list of people whom the compilers consider the enemies of the country.
The viral screenshot is allegedly made on the mask page in the Peacemaker base. At the same time, instead of a real photo of the entrepreneur, his image is placed there in a head-heading hat and a balalaika, most likely generated by a neural network. Among the billionaire data, the date of birth (06/28/1971), the country of residence (USA), the address (for some reason Muscovy) and the phone number (x) are indicated. The following are the reasons for adding a mask to the Black List: “Insults and fasting of President Vladimir Zelensky, supplying the Internet with new memes about Ukraine, supporting violation of the territorial integrity of the state, supporting Transcarpathian separatists, promoting Hungarian values, an accomplice in the crimes of the Russian authorities against Ukraine and its citizens.”
However, the search on the site did not give any results. "Tested" was looking for how Russian, and by English Writing a name, but there is no profile on the site. Absent copies of such a page in archives Internet.
Of course, if we assume that the record of the mask was really removed from the site in 15 minutes, then it will not be in the search results. Unfortunately, at the time of writing this analysis in the history of the base renewal, the earliest records are dated on October 4, and the businessman was allegedly included two days earlier. But you can understand that the screenshot with a mask is fabled by indirect signs. For example, the profile first indicates the English -language name of the billionaire, and then the surname, although on the site Used The reverse order. There is no photo under personal data that should repeat The main picture of the profile. In addition, the same screenshot is distributed on the network.
Thus, messages about the inclusion of Ilon Mask in the base of the Peacemaker Center are a fake, which appeared after a scandal associated with the tweet of a billionaire. At the same time, in recent years, not the first time the businessman has been “entered” into this list. So, twice about introducing a mask to the Peacemaker base wrote a satirical publication of Panorama (in 2021 And 2022 years) and satirical Telegram channel That's News (as well as on "Picabu"). On October 14, 2022, the next Fake screenshot that some users continued distribute And in October 2023.
Earlier this year, against the backdrop of other political conflicts, similar fake screenshots were distributed, according to which the President of Poland fell into the list of enemies of Ukraine Andrzej Duda and Pope Francis.
Photo on the cover: collage "Checked" / social networks
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