In mid-October 2023, Internet users distributed a video allegedly shot in the United States. If you believe in numerous posts, then on one of the New York streets a video bank was shown, calling for help not to Israel, but to Ukraine. We checked the authenticity of the viral video.
The video began to disperse along social networks a few days after attacks Hamas militants to Israel and the military operation that began in response. The recording lasts only 8 seconds. It shows that it was as if on a media-border located on one of the kiosks in New York, a stove in the colors of the Ukrainian flag, in which the banknotes are burning, is shown. “Help Jews = burning money. Support Ukraine! " (Helping Jews = Burning Money. Stand with Ukraine!) - the inscriptions on the screen say. In social networks you can find publications, the authors of which are accused of ordering this alleged advertising "Bandera" Ukrainians, team Vladimir Zelensky, and sometimes himself president Ukraine.
Such posts were most popular in the pro -Russian segment of Telegram, where the video published channels of publications "Tsargrad-TV"(32,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Politnavigator"(34,000) and Avia.pro (19,000), as well as "Sanya in Florida"(381,000 views),"Observer"(215 000),"Uncle Glory"(207 000),"Sheikh Tamir"(132 000),"Kostyan Cat - Official Channel"(110 000),"What happened?"(105 000), Zergulio (103,000), "Alexander Semchenko"(89,000),"Federation"(85,000),"Evgeny Prigozhin in Telegram"(77 000), Fox News Russia (76,000), "I am in the know"(73,000),"Talipov 𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞"(63,000),"Boiling water"(54,000),"Ax | Policy"(49,000),"Coachman"(34,000),"Batkovich"(32 000), Nina Vatt (31,000), "Baibaiden"(29,000),"I'm shocked"(27,000),"Antifses"(23,000),"Denacification UA"(20,000) and"Before everyone else. Well, almost. Special operation"(12 000). There is a video in VKontakte (examples here, here, here And here), social networks X (former Twitter; here And here), Facebook* (here And here), Tiktok (here, here And here), Livejournal (here And here), on YouTube and some otherssites.
The viral video was dismantled by our colleagues from factskeeping projects Stopfake And Factcheck.kz. Below, “verified” retells their analysis.
In the upper part of the advertising screen, on which the video is supposedly demonstrated, the letter combination is placed JCDECAUX - this is the name of the transnational corporation engaged in the installation of outdoor advertising (we Mentioned Its in our analysis of fake anti -Ukrainian advertising in Paris). Stopfake editors Turned For a comment to the press service of the company, where the viral video was called a fake. “This video is a fake, since we have never broadcast such a campaign on our street equipment,” answered Clementine Pt, Managing Director for Communications JCDecaux.
Countering Disinformation Center (CPD), body of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, declaredthat the basis of a fake video is a video shot a month ago and published on a YouTube channel The Nyc Walking Show -There they post a first-person video with walks along the streets of New York. However, representatives of the Ukrainian department did not provide a link to the initial record.
Conclusion of the CPD Confirmed Factcheck.kz journalists, who watched a number of entries with foot tours on the American megalopolis and found a video called “Virtual walking tour of New York-[quarter] Billionaires' Row, the city of New York, a walk” on the aforementioned channel. There was a video Published August 23, 2023, and removed it, according to the description, a few days earlier - August 19. The fragment of interest, almost identical to the virus video, It begins At the time mark 06:03: it was removed from the same angle, the same passing cars and passing people are captured on it, and the same reflections are visible on the glasses of buildings and in a puddle. The only difference is that on a billboard in YouTube Video there is no message about the meaninglessness of assistance to Israel. The initial record at that time showed an advertisement for the event of a charitable organization for the fight against cancer Stand Up to Cancer, passing Just August 19.
The earliest publication with a fake video, which was able to track "verified", appeared On the evening of October 12, 2023, in the Telegram channel Voblya (184,000 views), mentioned In our analysis, several dozen times. At the same time, in the post of this channel on the video there is a branded logo that is absent in many other publications (there are no traces of its removal in them). This suggests that there is an earlier post that we did not find, or the distribution of fake began at once from several sources.
Thus, the Ukrainians did not order the placement of advertising demanding to stop assistance to Israel, since such a message was never broadcast on New York Street. The company managing a media -bilboard called the viral video a fake, and Factchera found out that the fake is based on the open -domestic access, which was shifted.
*Russian authorities They think Meta Platforms Inc., which owns the social network Facebook, an extremist organization, its activities in Russia are prohibited.
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