In mid-November, 2023, a video allegedly shot at Times Square was enclosed in social networks. The video shows a media banner, where an Israeli appears instead of the Ukrainian flag, and the phrase “support Ukraine” is supplanted by words about Israeli support. We checked whether it is real advertising.
Two variations of the video are found on the network: one lasts 14 seconds, and the second is a three -second fragment. “Ukraine, move”: an advertisement for help from Israel appeared in New York. On huge banners, a video is broadcast, in which the inscription "Support Israel" replaces, apparently, to everyone who has already bored "support Ukraine." Accompanied by the text-a “lag” blue-yellow flag, which is replaced by a canvas with a star of David ”- says One of the most popular video signatures. Reportedthat in this way through Social External advertising in the United States announces "a change in priorities Western propaganda. " Sometimes the authors of publications add additional data: for example, that such billboards in New York more one, what customer Advertising is an American ABC television channel (at the end of the video, its logo appears with the inscription “Watch news. Stay in trend”) and that the children's cartoon “Trolls” advertise nearby.
Similar posts are published in Telegram channels of TV presenters Ruslan Ostashko (99,000 views at the time of writing this analysis) and Olesya Loseva (12,000), radio host Armen Gasparyan (64,000), TV channel "TV Center"(121,000), publications"Ukraine.ru"(90,000), as well as"Uncle Glory"(193 000), Voblya (149,000), "Sheikh Tamir"(118 000),"What happened?"(95,000),"Belarusian security officer"(85,000),"Gossip"(82 000),"Yakov Kedmi"(65 000),"I am in the know"(65 000),"True Russia"(63,000),"Infantryman"(53,000),"Talipov 𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞"(52,000),"Tucker Carlson for Russia"(38 000),"New 🅉 Ukraine"(34,000),"Donetsk z"(33,000), Wine O’Clock (32,000), "The thoughts of Okhlobystin"(31 000),"News Bazaar 18+"(29,000),"In fact in Kharkov"(19,000), Ukr leaks (19,000), "Anton Shabashov"(17,000) and PEACHBLOSSOM (15,000). Among other platforms, a video with alleged advertising is found on VKontakte (for example, here, here And here), "Zen" Tiktok, social networks X (former Twitter) and news sites.
The viral video was distributed not only in the Russian -language segment of the Internet. For example, in X appeared two English -speaking tweet, which in total gained more than 10 million views. In this regard, the video of interest to us dismantled a lot of facts from all over the world, including publications AFP, Lead Stories, Reuters, "Fact-meter" 20 minutes, "Myth detector" Stopfake, AP, USA Today, Newsweek and journalists BBC Verify. Below we set out the main arguments of our colleagues, and also added our own.
Judging by the captured buildings, the video was actually shot in New York-on intersection 50th street and 7th Avenue. This location is located in the very center of the city, next to Times Square and Broadway, while only the same recording of the advertising that interests us is on the network, which seems unlikely, given the resonant topic and a busy place. In addition, the mention of such an advertisement “verified” did not find at either site ABC News, nor in social networks of this broadcasting network (Facebook*, Instagram*, X, YouTube And Tiktok).
The operator shown in the viral video of the media -border - company Clear Channel Outdoor (CCO), what You can see By her logo at the screen. Edition Lead Stories By e-mail, I turned to CCO for a comment, and Jason King (senior vice president of corporate communications) called the video a fake. “The advertisement you refer to is Fake. She was not demonstrated either on this or any other of our displays, ”he wrote. The same representative of the company said to publications Newsweek, Reuters, AP, USA Today And AFP. The source of the American channel also informed the newspaper 20 minutes, agency AFP and publication Newsweekthat advertising has nothing to do with ABC News.
As mentioned above, under the viral advertising of Israel's support instead of Ukraine, a cartoon banner is located "Troll-3»From the DreamWorks studio. Journalist Jack Werner Found Other videos with the same screen published in Snapchat during the distribution of a viral roller. According to these records, a short cartoon trailer was shown at the top of the banner. Similar video Subscribers Send BBC journalist Shayan Sardarizade, as well as in place He traveled AFP correspondent. Moreover, you can find Panorama streets, Made In the same place In recent years, and make surethat on the upper and lower parts of that media -border advertised One and same project.
The ending of the trolley-3 trailer is even visible for a moment at the very end of the false video (at 00:14), immediately after the ABC News logo. That is, the authors of the fake forgot to cut off the passage, where there was a fragment of the original video trait demonstrated on the screen.
It is interesting that the massively fabricated video began to be distributed from November 13, while the earliest post with fake “verified”, as well as our colleagues from Lead Stories, AFP And 20 minutes Found in the Russian-speaking Telegram channel "Optimist in civilian clothes"(13,000 views), where the publication appeared several days earlier - November 9 at 17:58 Moscow time. This channel is already several times mentioned In our parsing fakes. He belongs to Polina Reutova, who calls himself a journalist and historian and more than once appeared V different pro -Russian programs. At the same time, we found three later posts in other Telegram channels, from which other fakes previously began: ""V Kremlin's hand z z"(7000 views)," "Tasking News"(3000) and"Shkvarka 2.0"(1100). All of them indicate that the video was sent by an anonymous subscriber - this method is often used by the creators of fakes.
Thus, on the streets of New York, they did not show such an advertisement for a change in support priorities from Ukraine to Israel. The basis of the video was indeed shot on Times Square, but then the unknown people changed their shots in the video editor, laying the Ukrainian and Israeli flags on top of the animation of the cartoon, as well as phrases about the support of these countries.
The creation of such fake videos from New York, allegedly showing the attitude of Americans to Ukraine, is a popular method that the authors of fakes practice. Previously "verified" Disassembled Similar false messages about how Zelensky supposedly Compared with a black hole They called it "Pis Duke" and even They blew up. In addition, fake videos appeared with phrases "Glory to Urine" And "Help to Jews = burning money".
*Russian authorities They think Meta Platforms Inc., which owns social networks Facebook and Instagram, an extremist organization, its activities in Russia are prohibited.
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