At the end of September 2023, a message spread that US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin turned to the Russian army, asking for "play by the rules." We checked whether the American official said something similar.
On September 26 and 27, Austin's appeal to the military personnel of the Russian Federation wrote Telegram channels "Sanya in Florida"(398,000 views at the time of writing this analysis), Reverse Side of the Medal (333,000), "Putin in Telegram"(213,000) and, according to the TGSTAT service, about 400 more channels. “Repeating the situation with German“ leopards ”when on them announced Hunting, unacceptable, I saw these calls on the network. Play by the rules, ”the bloggers quoted Austina. About the words allegedly said by the head of the Pentagon, he wrote words "Moscow Komsomolets" And row other pro -Russian Media, the quote was also distributed by users Facebook And "VKontakte".
None of the above publications in the media and social networks have a link to the source, which would say where, when, under what circumstances, Austin pronounced the quote distributed by Internet users. "Verified" failed to find this or any similar statement of the American military either in verified Austin's account on the social network X (formerly Twitter), nor on site Pentagon, nor in large American media.
About Abrams Lloyd Austin He said At the 15th meeting of the contact group on the defense of Ukraine, which took place in Germany on September 19. The American Minister of Defense talked about the help that the States Provides Kyiv, and announced the ambulance of Abrams to the Ukrainian military (these tanks of the White House promised Send the Armed Forces in January). But the call to refrain from “hunting” to the “Abrams”, also addressed to the Russian military, in his speech.
Search by keywords on the English -language Internet leads to the social network X, where the quote appeared on September 25 in the account @Albertsam786067. In English, she Not received widespread. At the same time, the text of Tweita itself is a direct (probably machine) translation of the earliest of the very “tested” sources of the quote-the Telegram channel “But my Yandex Kid”. There is a publication appeared September 25 at 14:50 Moscow time, shortly after messages The fact that the first batch of promised American tanks arrived in Ukraine.
This channel is not the first time that the primary source of viral disinformation messages, including the media, is the primary source of viral disinformation messages. “Verified” wrote about more than a dozen stories that first appeared in this channel, but then issued for the present in the media and other media. Among them, for example, the publication about the words of the Estonian Prime Minister Kai Callas, who supposedly I asked Russians are more serious about sanctions, and the call to the countries of Africa to starve for independence, attributed The EU Supreme EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrere. The description of the channel “But my Yandex Kid” explicitly says: “A parody, a satire on political reality. Only proven fakes, ”but this disclaimer, judging by the number of posts adopted for the truth, many Internet users, bloggers and media employees ignore.
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