Soon after the final press conference of the President of the Russian Federation, information spread that the vast majority of Ukrainian Internet users watched a broadcast with Putin. We checked whether this statistics are correct.
The United Direct Line and the Big Press Conference of Russian President Vladimir Putin passed December 14, 2023. Already the next morning, publications of the following content appeared on the Web: “The Gallup Research Institute has published data for December 14. It turned out that about 75% of Ukrainians who have the Internet watched a straight line with Putin using different VPN services. The depth of viewing was recorded for Ukraine 50%. ”
According to the TGSTAT service, such records in Telegram were a total of at least 6.5 million views. The most popular are posts in the channels of the TV presenter Ruslan Ostashko (91,000 views at the time of writing this analysis) and the writer Zakhara Prilepin (72,000), as well as "The world today with "Yuri Podolyak""(1.3 million)," "Live broadcast"(612 000),"Russia now"(232 000),"Truthfulness"(167 000),"Uncle Glory"(162 000),"Putin in Telegram"(148 000),"The voice of the country"(144 000),"The world of Mikhail Onufrienko"(135 000),"Bladsiker 2.0"(113,000),"The first folk"(103,000), Brief (103,000), "Ivan Utenkov"(101 000),"Bullet"(96 000),"Kostyan Cat - Official Channel"(89,000),"Mardan"(70,000),"True Russia"(61 000) and"Yakov Kedmi"(58 000). In addition, the alleged study of the Gallup Institute was told by leading news on the air "Channel One" And "Russia 24", newspaper "Komsomolskaya Truth" Pravda.ru, URA.RU , "Ukraine.ru", IA"Red spring" And other News resources. Hundreds of similar posts appeared in "VKontakte" And X (former Twitter; in this social network there are publications in several languages).
A significant part of the records on the alleged study either consists only of the text or is illustrated by personnel from the Putin press conference. However, the authors of some posts Reference The EURONEWS television channel and even give a video and/or screenshot of this video prepared by journalists as confirmation. The recording lasts one minute, it used EURONEWS logos and a proprietary screensaver. Below are a translation of the text from the video.
75% of Internet users in Ukraine monitored Putin's “direct line”. Gallup published data on the results of the press conference of Vladimir Putin, which took place on December 14. The study raised data on views of a press conference in Eastern Europe. It turned out that more than 75% of Internet users in Ukraine monitored broadcasting with Vladimir Putin using various VPN services. The depth of viewing reached a record 50%. Only Russia and Belarus have reached higher indicators of the television news and answers with Putin. This broadcast set an absolute record for the depth of viewing by users in Ukraine in 2023. The press conference of Vladimir Putin is an annual television political event in Russia. This is an event with the participation of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the “Question - answer” format.
If you believe the contents of the video, it turns out that in terms of incomplete day the researchers somehow (the video does not say anything about the methodology) analyzed the Internet traffic of Ukrainian users who allegedly watched the air using VPN connections that mask The actions of users are on the network. Moreover, according to data different research, in Ukraine by the Internet Uses A significant part of the population, that is, tens of millions of citizens.
"Verified" did not find a study on viewing Putin’s press conference in Ukraine either on the site Gallupnor in social networks of the organization (X, Instagram*, Facebook*, Threads*, YouTube). On the company's website, the President of the Russian Federation last time mentioned At the end of November 2023 - then Gallup published results Studies, according to which this summer, the confidence of Russians to the army decreased slightly, but remained high (75% instead of 80% in 2022). As for the EURONEWS roller, then find it on the official media resources of the television channel (X, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube) it did not work. Gallup for the last time mentioned The publication website is precisely in connection with their November publication on the trust of Russians to the army.
Additional evidence that the video is fake is the difference in fonts. Over the past one and a half years, "verified" Disassembled many videos trying to mimic under the subjects of authoritative foreign media (among them twice Facing And the EURONEWS channel). The authors of such fakes are well imitating the general style, color scheme and animation, but usually they still make errors in details-most often they choose the wrong font. So it happened this time: most of all differences are noticeable in writing letters I, T, K, F, P and G, as well as numbers 1.
The earliest post with the roller supposedly Euronews about the alleged survey Gallup “Checked” found in the Telegram channel “Sheikh Tamir", Who was Caught On the distribution of fake photos and videos dozens of times. There the record appeared on December 15 at 12:40 pm Moscow time and scored more than 123,000 views. Moreover, according to TGSTAT, a little earlier in this channel was placed, and then Removed Similar post. The probable reason for removal was the fact that the name of the person who sent the video was shown in the original publication. The fact that the video was sent by an anonymous subscriber is also indicated in the posts of others well acquaintances our regular readers of the Telegram channels who distributed fakes: ""V Kremlin's hand z z"(6500 views),"Tasking News"(3100) and"Shkvarka 2.0"(1100).
Thus, Russian federal television channels, political bloggers, authors of large Telegram channels, as well as ordinary network users have distributed information about a non-existent study from fake video. What percentage of Ukrainian Internet users actually followed Putin’s press conference live is unknown.
*Russian authorities They think Meta Platforms Inc., which owns social networks Facebook, Instagram and Threads, an extremist organization, its activities in Russia are prohibited.
Photo on the cover: Broadcast screenshot / vesti.ru
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