In October 2023, several stories appeared at once about unusual actions that their organizers from different countries allegedly timed to the birthday of the President of Russia. We checked how true these messages are.
Show Dronov in Guangzhou
On the birthday of the President of the Russian Federation, on October 7, in the Russian -speaking segment of Telegram, the video allegedly shot in China became popular. The video shows a luminous portrait (as claimed, Vladimir Putin) with the inscription "Happy Birthday Mr. President ”(“ Happy Birthday, Mr. President ”) over an unknown reservoir. “Meanwhile, in China, on the night of October 7, they congratulated Vladimir Putin on birthday!” - says the signature for the video in the channels Voblya (137,000 views at the time of writing this analysis) and "Sheikh Tamir" (113,000). In total, according to the TGSTAT service, at least 70 channels shared the video. Notes that the Russian president was congratulated on the holiday in the Chinese city of Guangzhou came out on the websites of television channels "Tsargrad" 360TV And "Moscow 24", As well as in a number regional Media.
Despite the abundance of publications in Russian, in most large federal Russian media, as well as in official Chinese publications in Chinese or English (including site The events in Guangzhou) is not mentioned of such a show of drones.
To understand what the people present on the video say, “verified” turned to the factor Masato Khamoto, who was currently working at the University of Hong Kong for help (Annie Lab Team). He said that people in the frame are talking in the Kanton dialect of the Chinese language, but in a short dialogue there is not a word about Putin or the show of drones. A person in the video says: “There are a few more pier. [There] offers tourists an excellent viewing night tour of the river delta Zhuzzyan. And ahead of the Canton tower. "
Yourself Canton tower There is no in the frame, but the fact that this is really Guangzhou confirms the financial center that has fallen into the frame - the second largest building of the city, which is located opposite.
Search by keywords and personnel in Google and Yandex shows that video There is only one version, and before everyone else, apparently, it was placed by the Voblya Telegram channel (October 7 at 12:02 pm Moscow time), and rare posts With a description in Chinese were published much later. Search by photo and video In the locals Accounts and by the center of Guangzhou tags and geotags On social networks also I did not give it other results. "Verified" did not find a single record made from another angle, although rollersA lot of time was removed in the evening in the period of time under the radius of 500 m from the alleged shooting point, a lot is posted.
It is extremely unlikely that the expensive Dronov show in the very center of the city with the 15 millionth population was removed by only one person (who did not comment on what he saw) and did not fall into local news. Together, the detected indirect data allow us to conclude that there was no such show, and the video is falsified.
Putin's tea in the USA
On the same day, October 7, about 200 Telegram channels, the largest of which is “Putin in Telegram"(190,000 views) and"Z-News | Army 18+"(125,000), they said that" The American Coffee Coffee Coffee Coffee network has released a special Putin Tea tea with the taste of Siberian herbs. " The posts are illustrated by a 11-second video that captured an advertising poster with a portrait of the Russian president and the inscription “DUMP the Pumpkin, it's so Last Season! Time to Sip on Putin Tea with Siberian Kick! ” (“Find it on a pumpkin, it’s no longer fashionable! Time to drink Putin’s tea with a Siberian charge of vigor!”). Putin’s portraits are also applied to circles that have fallen into the video.
As in the case of Chinese congratulations, there is only one video, while there is no information about the action on the official site V section October special offers and in social networks Caribou Coffee networks could not be found. Search by slogan from an advertising poster Curses On the site with memes, where only two results are found at this request - both are a translation of Russian -speaking publications that have previously appeared. The earliest of the discovered “verified” publications is posted in the Telegram channel “Putin in Telegram” (October 7 at 14:04 Moscow time).
The interior of the part of the room in the frame does not correspond to the design of the American coffee shop, which can be seen by learning the video Reels On her page on Instagram. Caribou Coffee has a single design of plastic cups, coffee mugs and rooms. Souvenir products available in the online store and presented in the photo and video in the official accounts of the network, Directly different From the one shown in the video. In equipped geotags publications Visitors to Caribou Coffee from different cities were also unable to find at least remotely similar advertising posters, elements of the design of the room and cups.
In response to a request “verified”, representatives of Caribou Coffee confirmed that these are not their goods, and requested a video that dispersed through social networks in order to discuss it with the team.
Thus, all available details indicate that the video was not shot in the interiors of the American coffee shop, but in another place and with a specially prepared requisite, in order to subsequently give a video for a campaign organized in the United States by Putin's birthday.
Congratulations from hackers
Also on October 7, a video allegedly spread, which allegedly recorded how "Russian hackers forced Ukrainians to congratulate Putin on his birthday." The video shows the moment when during the presentation during a certain event held in Ukrainian, a portrait of the President of the Russian Federation appears on the screen with the inscription “Happy Birthday!”, And the host reports that these are the actions of Russian hackers. The video scored the largest views in the Telegram channel Voblya (154,000), and also fell into a row Notes in the media and on entertainment sites.
The first of the detected "tested" videos was Placed In the Ragulyaku for Gylyaku (33,000 views) on October 7 at 15:37 Moscow time (in later publications, the water cable watermark was bastard). In a number of publications indicatedthat the alleged intervention of hackers occurred during a certain forum in Kherson. Search by news allowed “verified” to discover that the II architectural and construction forum “Restoration of Ukraine was held in the same interior. Transformation and modernization. " Its participants also used the identical style in the design of presentations. Is it true, passed The event is not in Kherson, but in Kyiv on October 5 and 6 (that is, even before Putin's birthday).
Search by various combinations of keywords In the air and video recordings on Facebook, it allowed to find the original record. This is a speech by a representative of the Ukrainian Foundation to the Netupu (Offensive fund) at the Kiev Forum, laid out On the official page of the organization on October 5. The fragment of interest to us begins at 2:35, and there is no invasion of hackers in the presentation on the recording.
In the video, shot two days before Putin’s birthday, the picture with congratulations was mounted, the video itself was cut off so that it was more difficult to identify (the logo of the Netupu Fund was removed from the frame), and the original audio road was replaced by a fake.
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