In December 2023, the next video message of the Western celebrity to the President of Ukraine was encouraged in social networks - this time allegedly from the star of the film “Clockwork Orange”. We found out if this video is real.

Numerous publications report that the 80-year-old British actor, whom the authors of the posts for some reason called An American, became another star who turned to Vladimir Zelensky with advice to go to a narcological clinic. “Vladimir ... you are dependent on alcohol and drugs. Listen, you cannot quit yourself. I know what I am talking about, I was addicted. I have been clean for 42 years. You need help! Go to the program "12 steps"" - such a quote from an actor from a viral video bring Most records.

According to the TGSTAT service, at the time of writing this analysis, posts about MacDauell’s appeal were gained in total about 1.8 million views. Such publications appeared in the channel of the TV presenter Ruslan Ostashko (97,000 views), as well as "Uncle Glory"(176 000),"Putin in Telegram"(154 000), Voblya (129,000), "The first folk"(112 000),"Bullet"(98 000),"Scott Ritter in Telegram"(86 000),"True Russia"(74,000; deleted),"Emergency / Crimea"(69,000),"Club service"(67 000),"Peacemaker"(66 000),"From the scene"(64,000),"Federation"(63,000),"Yakov Kedmi"(58 000),"Infantryman"(48,000) and others. In addition, the viral video was published by users and publics on VKontakte (examples here, here, here And here), social networks X And some News sites.

The distributed handling lasts almost three minutes and is a recording of the smartphone screen, which allegedly shows the story from Instagram* McDauella. Moreover, in publications, as follows from the viral video, the official profile Zelensky in this social network. Below we give a complete translation of the actor's words.

Hi Vladimir. How are you This is Malcolm McDowell. [Gluing.] You are addicted to alcohol and drugs. And it does not matter which one, because it is all chemistry. Listen, you cannot quit it yourself. And now the dependent says to you - I myself depend. I have been clean for 42 years, but every day there is still a chance that I will return to this if I do not work on myself. And this work is to follow the 12 Steps program. This means that you need to go to the society of anonymous alcoholics, anonymous cocaine, or where you like best. But you will need the help of friends and acquaintances to help you survive difficult times. And of course, your whole family and friends are worried about you, but you already know that. But you do not care, because you have your own business. You found a mistress for yourself - no matter what a drug or alcohol it is, you are only interested in them and how to get them even more. But you ... please, this is possible! I really had a roof, and I went crazy, but I was able to return. And, oddly enough, I am even glad that I went through all this, because now I understand what people go through, because I myself was on this path. Therefore, returning to you: it will be much better if you wake up without a hangover, when you feel it doesn’t matter, the brain does not work and you can barely rise. There is hope, and there is a way back - you must, simply must accept them. God sees, you do not want to die, and there is so much rubbish around now. For example, you hear that someone smokes a jamb stuffed with some kind of shit, and then a boom-and that’s it. We do not want this to happen to you. Please seek help. It is: there are very friendly people who will accept you, hug and help. So don't refuse! Well, that's all, I wish you all a happy Christmas and all the best! Bye!

There are no references to such a video in any authoritative English -language media, it was not possible to find traces of this story in either the actor's social networks or in the fan communities. The fact is that it is Another, already the eighth in a row, an example of a fake video show of celebrity to the President of Ukraine. Previously, “verified” disassembled similar videos allegedly from actors Elijah Wood, Dina Norris And John K. Mcginley, actresses Kate Flenner, boxer T -shirt Tyson, musician Shavo Odadjyana and business woman Presley's prisoners.

Fake and McDauell are made according to the same scheme: the authors of the fake ordered a real appeal from the actor on the site CameoWhere everyone can buy a short video soil from many stars. In the case of MacDauell, such a gift It will cost At $ 100. That is why in the video the actor never pronounces the name of Vladimir, to whom he addresses - most likely, the customers of Fake indicated only the name. Then the unknown people mounted the received appeal as if the celebrity laid it out in their social networks. At the time mark 02:30 there is also an inscription with reference to the Betty Ford medical center, which mentioned Most of such fake storiz. The only fundamental difference from previous seven cases is the lack of advertising nonexistent documentary series of Tom Cruise.

The spread of the fake also took place traditionally: an anonymous subscriber allegedly sent him to Russian pro-government Telegram channels. The earliest “tested” publications appeared on December 18 at 21:35 Moscow time in Telegram channels "Tasking News"(6700 views) and"Shkvarka 2.0"(1100). By the way, on December 23, these posts there Duplicated.

This is not the first time that the video from the star of the "Clothing Orange" is used in a similar scheme. So, in September, social networks distributed reports that Western celebrities turned to the President of Moldova Maya Sandu with the call “Let's Skat Sandu!”. In the upper part of the false video, there was a logo of the News Program of the Moldavian television channel TV8. In addition to McDauella, the authors of the fake ordered appeals from the actors Dolph Londgren ($ 350 per video at the time of writing this analysis), Brian Baumgarter ($ 195), Erica Roberts ($ 105), Mark Dakaskos ($ 200) and Michael Madsen ($ 300), actresses Lindsay Lohan ($ 400), rapper Xzibit ($ 300), entertainer Michael Buffer ($ 375) and apple co -founder Steve Vozniak ($ 500) - all of them are presented on the Cameo service. If at the time of the orders there were no discounts, then such a video cost $ 2825 without taking into account installation work.

This fake fell a little Telegram channels with a relatively small aggregate audience (perhaps the fact is that the video was prepared specifically for the Moldavian audience). The earliest publication of those that traveled "verified" appeared on the morning of September 26 in the channel "Chisinau 24"(17,000 views). Also fake video posted channels "Freshness"(30,000),"Optimist in civilian clothes"(16,000),"Gudoshnikov"(14,000),"Moldavian mole"(14,000),"Moldavian Vagon"(12,000) and"Bear"(7200). At the same time, in well we are familiar to us "V Kremlin's hand z z"(8100)," "Drinking News"(3400) and"Shkvarka 2.0"(1500) It is again indicated that the reader sent the news. And although the authors of most posts separately notedthat this is not a dipper in the channel “Choice of Moldova” (1000 views) in this doubted: “I would like to believe that this is true. However, new technologies of neural networks allow not only to speak the character in the character, but also change the facial expressions of his face. That is, the neural network changes the face so that, reading the lips, it seems that the video is not a fake. The likelihood of a fake is high, because people with a video do not care about Sandu. With a very little probability, they were paid well. But do these people need money? "

*Russian authorities They think Meta Platforms Inc., which owns the social network Instagram, an extremist organization, its activities in Russia are prohibited.

Photo on the cover: The film "Clockwork Orange"

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