At the end of October 2023, Russian media and Telegram channels accused the reporter from Romania of allegedly staged Hamas' missile attack. It is reported that the journalist led a report on the ground, while people calmly walked in the background. We checked, the reliability of such accusations.
In Runet, publications on an allegedly fabricated report began to diverge massively from October 23. If you believe numerous posts and notes in the media, during the live broadcast of the Romanian television channel Digi24, the correspondent Christine Chilyak pretended to be reported under fire in Israel. The authors of such publications indicate that in the background the video is visible calmly passing people and passing cyclists. “The Romanian journalist right during the report from Israel was forced to rush to the ground, fleeing the inhuman bombing of the Hamas terrorists. The voice of truth is so hated by them that they opened the hunt for it, and they have no complaints about other passers-by-they calmly walk around, ride on greats, ”writes Telegram channel“The goat screamed"(206,000 views at the time of writing this analysis).
Similar posts about supposedly invisible Shelling appeared in the channels of TV presenters Vladimir Solovyov (239,000 views) and Ruslan Ostashko (116 000), "Live broadcast"(768 000), Shot (292 000), "Media Russia not Moscow"(272 000),"Putin in Telegram"(197 000), Voblya (167 000), "Oleg Tsarev"(166 000),"Heaven is"(159,000),"Zlaya Pruf"(146 000),"Briefly speaking"(140 000),"Bullet"(137 000),"The first folk"(135 000),"Operation Z"(117 000),"Pool N3"(114 000),"Yakov Kedmi"(86 000),"Minravdi"(27,000), as well as in VKontakte (examples here, here And here), social networks X (formerly Twitter; for example, in the account SVTV News) and on "Picabu".
Information about the production report of Romanian television was also distributed by many Russian media. So, in the newspaper "Moscow Komsomolets"The note went under the heading" Romanian journalist was suspected of preferences due to reporting on the shelling of Israel ", in"Arguments and facts"The missile attack was called fictitious and accompanied the text with the" Fakes of Foreign Media "tag, on the site Life The reporter was called the "actress without" Oscar ", in the public Readovka On VKontakte - "Actress of the Pogoregoy Theater", and in "RIA Novosti"Published the material under the heading" The Romanians ridiculed the journalist who was aired by "due to shelling". " Similar entries appeared on the resources of television channels "Tsargrad","Moscow 24","360" And "Solovyov Live"As well as"RT in Russian" Lenta.ru, "News","Truth.ru" Eadaily, "Sputnik near abroad" News.ru, "Russian spring","Own correspondent","Notepad Russia","Moscow Region today" And Avia.pro.
In most of the above posts and news notes, a video is given lasting less than 30 seconds, which is a record from the TV screen. It shows a correspondent lying next to the car, while there are no sounds of sirens against the background, and two men are noticeable in the background: standing by the bench (in blue) and rising from it (in black)-and two cyclists passing by. In the lower left corner of the video there is a logo of the Romanian television channel Digi24. “They are close to us ... It seems they have already stopped. Israel probably intercepts all these bombs. We will remain in this position for a while, because you never know when the bombing stops ... Everything is fine, everything is calm, I'm trying to get up, ”says the journalist in the frame.
How found out The AFP agency factor, a viral video is a genuine fragment of Digi24. According to the official website of the channel, reportage was removed on October 22 after 11 a.m. in the Israeli city of Ashkelon, located about 10 km north of the gas sector and after the Hamas attack regularly exposed Shelling. A fragment of this plot Showed In the news release on the same day at noon, and a short passage, which later became viral, appeared In the Russian -language segment of Telegram no later than the evening of the same day. Moreover, on English And Romanian Languages of such publications were released a few hours earlier, and the likely source of the record is a Romanian-speaking Tiktok account OVIPAU (1.6 million views), where the video Placed at 12:09 Moscow time.
On the Digi24 website, the source video with a report of Chilyak lasts 29 minutes. 46 sec., And for the first time a correspondent appears in the frame at 02:56. At about 05:00, she says that the inhabitants of Ashkelon cannot constantly stay at home and that with anxiety signals, everyone runs into shelters, which are enough in the south of Israel. At the mark of 05:13 Chilyak says: “Everyone knows what needs to be done, and now the Israeli army is very trusted,” and then the sound of the siren is clearly heard. Noting that the alarm sounded a signal, the journalist and his colleague took refuge at the nearest car (05:19).
Then, already lying at the car, Chilyak says: “It is recommended to lie, if there is nowhere else to run, and this is what we are doing now. Explosions are heard, the alarm is still continuing. The only thing that can be done now is to lie and wait for the shelling to stop. ” The sound of the explosion is heard at the mark 05:33, and the alarm ends at 05:45. The fragment, which has become viral, begins at 05:47, that is, after the signals about the missile attack stopped sounding.
As for people who, according to numerous posts, calmly went and did not pay attention to the shelling, then at the mark of 05:35 it is clear how in the background during anxiety the man in black goes to the bench and sits behind it. At the same time, a man in blue approaches him, but Siren manages to shut up. Accordingly, the viral video shows only how one of the men got up after the end of anxiety. Cycles got into the frame even later.
Below we give an excerpt to which the beginning of air anxiety fell.
In the spread of misinformation, the Romanian journalist was reproached not only by the Russian media and Telegram channels. So, at home in Instagram* And Facebook* Chilyaku was accused of creating a staged plot by the former Prime Minister of Romania Viktor Pontus, who wrote: “In a normal country with a normal press, this Madame, which“ broadcasts on the stomach ”, when they ride bicycles around it, go on the air and apologizes for being mocking the audience and reporters who actually expose their lives of danger. After that, she politely announces that she resigned (so that the TV channel on which she works did not drive her out)! ”
In response to Chilyak Published The LinkedIn message, in which the policies for the distribution of fakes already criticized: “The former Prime Minister Romania, and now the honorary adviser to the prime minister allows himself to disseminate false information about my work and especially ridicule the war in Israel. When you do not value yourself, you are trying to make others less valuable. That's just a wilted political career remains wilted. In journalism, the truth always goes outside. Fake politician = fake news. "
In turn, the Digi24 television channel defended his employee, Having published On the site is an editorial article with an explanation of the incident and criticism of a show -off. The text explains how a person changes his behavior during long military conflicts. “People living every day under fire, perceive the signals of anxiety as part of everyday life and create their own hierarchy of danger levels. For a person who hears several alarm signals per day, fear occurs only when the rocket falls in the immediate vicinity of him, ”the material said at the beginning of the material. In the second part of the article, the channel expresses gratitude to Chilyak and its colleague for following the Israeli security protocols acting during the air anxiety signal: “As a journalist, you, on the one hand, work with a large volume of very sensitive information, on the other, you are often an example to follow, and your behavior can become a model for others.”
Thus, reports on the setting of a report from Israel and the illustrating the video are misleading: the original video was cut so that the audience did not hear the siren and the subsequent explosion. The journalist of the Romanian television channel Digi24 took recommended precautions immediately after she heard the alarm, but this is not clear without context.
Note that a couple of days after the initial unreliable reports of Christine Chilyak in some Telegram channels, including Russia 🇷🇺 Live (30,000 views), "The sun"(27,000),"Arbalet l arbalet 🇷🇺 z"(20,000),"Wagner in Telegram"(16,000), Eco (15,000), "Russian Federation"(13,000) and"Skotomgilnik | 18+ | Dead crests"(9000), information appeared about the alleged murder of a reporter. “The Romanian journalist who shot the staged shots of the Israeli shelling was caught by the Hezbollah militants. The militants "Hezbollah" published a photo of the murdered journalist. Personnel strictly 18+. We published photos of the mutilated body in our second channel "Country 404"" - said in already remote posts. In fact, it was a fake advertisement: a journalist, as follows from the text above, is alive, and there are no similar photographic materials in the mentioned channel.
In addition, in some posts About the Romanian report Mentioned Another alleged production: supposedly a video of CNN appeared on the Web, on which the voice behind the scenes dictates to the journalists of the American television channel how to behave while connecting to the broadcast from Israel so that the frames look more spectacular. "Checked" Disassembled This video established that he was fabricated - the American blogger deliberately put another sound track in the original video CNN.
*Russian authorities They think Meta Platforms Inc., which owns social networks Instagram and Facebook, an extremist organization, its activities in Russia are prohibited.
Photo on the cover: digi24
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