In December 2023, Titanic, El Jueves and Rodip Reb publications appeared on the Web, ridiculing Ukraine and President Vladimir Zelensky. We decided to check if these are the real covers.
German magazine Titanic
On December 20, the cover of the German satirical magazine Titanic appeared on the Web. It depicts Christmas entourage: a Christmas tree with gifts and a fireplace, over which military boots with bones sticking out of them are suspended instead of traditional socks. Tags of flowers of the Ukrainian flag are attached to the boots, and the title reads: "We celebrate Christmas with Ukraine." This cover was published by such Telegram channels as "Colonelcassad"(235,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Alexander Semchenko"(80 000) and"Voozmeta"(22,000).
Titanic magazine is published once a month. The cover that was dispersed on social networks indicates that this is a number for December 2023. Meanwhile, in the online store on the official website of the magazine, where all issues for 2023 are presented, at December The rooms are a completely different cover. A typical layman is ridiculed on the original collage. The title says: "This is terrible: how we learn to cope with bad news." Against the background of ruins and fires - photos of secular chronicles and news about the rise in price of mulled wine.
In addition, the Titanic real cover under the name of the month also indicates the serial issue number (for example, NR.12 in December, as is written on the authentic magazine). On the aligned cover, the Christmas issue is written on the network. Meanwhile, neither in December 2022nor in December 2021 The design of the column with technical information did not change, and Titanic did not have any Christmas issues.
Face covers Titanic appear on social networks for the far from the first time: in October 2022as well as in June And October 2023 Russian Telegram channels distributed cartoons about Zelensky and Ukraine under the guise of new numbers of the German satirical magazine.
The most previously mentioning new fake cover, according to TGSTAT, is a post in the Telegram channel of the Russian TV presenter Olesya Losevapublished on December 20, 2023 at 13:17 Moscow time. “Verified” previously sorted out other cases when the distribution began from this channel fake covers foreign magazines.
Spanish magazine El Jueves
On December 12, the cover of the Spanish satirical magazine El Jueves began to spread in social networks. She was timed to visit Vladimir Zelensky for the inauguration of the Argentine President Havier Miley on December 10. On the caricature, the leaders of the two countries are hugged, while Zelensky takes out his wallet from the rear pocket of the Argentinean colleague. This image is accompanied by the signature: "Ukraine helps Argentina support Ukraine." Publications with allegedly cover El Jueves appeared, for example, in Telegram channels Ukr leaks (19,000 views at the time of writing this analysis) and Swiss🐈vatnik (12,000).
The viral image indicates that it is No. 2.395 of the 46th year of the magazine (that is, 2023). Under the number of the magazine there is an inscription "Special issue". On El Jueves in archive of covers In 2023, there is no such image, and the last accessible number was released under No. 2.394 and is dedicated not to Ukraine, but to the people of the year according to the publication.
However, in social networks of the publication, announcements of issues that have not yet been sold are regularly published. December 12th Facebook The magazine appeared the cover of the next number.
True, he was not devoted to Ukraine again. In addition, the numbering is also different: No. 2.395 decided to release in several parts, and they are designated as No. 2.395-01, 2.395-02 And 2.395-03.
Fake covers El Jueves appeared on the Web some once. As a rule, the authors of fakes depicted Zelensky on them.
The earliest publication with a caricature on Zelensky and Milea is a post in the Telegram channel "V🇷🇺ruka Kremlin🇷🇺z"(6000 views), which appeared on December 12 at 15:00 Moscow time.
Indian magazine Rodip Reb
On December 16, a cover of publication called Rodip Reb appeared on social networks. It depicts a broken Christmas ball of the flowers of the Ukrainian flag, the picture is accompanied by the signature “Exlaimed into the darkness: the tragic prospects of Ukraine in 2024”. This image was not widespread, most of all the views remained in the primary source of this image, the Telegram channel of the TV presenter Olesya Loseva (12,000 at the time of writing of the analysis).
The publications with this name could not be found. The site Rodipreb.in, indicated on the cover, is also not by search engines. FACKING PRODUCTION ""Myth detector»Contacted Indian colleagues from Factly.in, and they confirmed that such a magazine does not exist.
However, the solution is much easier. The name of the magazine is a simple insult (the name must be read from right to left), addressed to the founder of the project “Check”, regularly exposing the authors of fake covers of foreign magazines. From mid -2022 to the end of 2023, “verified” wrote about 59 fake covers, including Charlie Hebdo, Courrier International, Handelsblatt, Le Man, Newsweek and many other publications. After a series of revelations, the pro-Kremlin Telegram channels answered fake The fact that the fake cover was allegedly created by the editor -in -chief of “verified” Ilya Ber.
The earliest mention of the fake magazine - fast In the Telegram channel of the TV presenter Olesya Loseva. This channel is regularly Found in the analysis "verified" and often turns out to be primary source Fakes.
Photo on the cover: collage "Checked"
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