In January 2024, a video allegedly shot before the American musician’s performance was dispersed in the media and social networks. It is reported that on the screen at the scene the slogan Stop Funding Ukraine was highlighted (“Stop financing Ukraine”), for which the artist later had to apologize. We checked whether this story is true.
The spaced seven -heating video shows how, during a three -dimensional show on the stage, words consistently appear that form the phrase Stop Funding Ukraine (the authors of many publications translated it as “enough to finance Ukraine”). If you believe notes in the Russian-speaking media, the anti-Ukrainian slogan was demonstrated during the warm-up of Moby in Las Vegas at the January concert. At the same time, it is reported that the call caused dissatisfaction with some of the spectators, so the singer laid out the story with apologies in his social networks. So, an inscription in English is imposed on top of the viral video: “Moby, next time find someone else for warming up. This is a concert, not CNN news. ”
The TV channels “Tsargrad” were told about the video distributed (Telegram, "Zen" And "VKontakte"),"360" And "Fifth channel", Publications Eadaily, "Reginum" And Avia.proas well as sites Tvcenter.ru, Telegraf.com.ua, My.ua And "Mriya". Among Telegram channels about embarrassment during the concert, they reported "Heaven is"(197,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Uncle Glory"(185,000),"Luke fucks"(168 000),"Putin in Telegram"(165,000),"Bullet"(114 000),"Emergency / Crimea"(88 000),"Release Kraken!"(73,000),"From the scene"(73,000),"Urgently, now"(48 000),"Alexander Scholkov | He"(43,000),"Uncle Glory in Telegram"(42 000),"Russia 🇷🇺 Live"(36,000),"War History of Weapons"(30,000) and"The thoughts of Okhlobystin"(29,000). The viral video is also found on VKontakte (examples here, here And here) and in the social network X (here And here).
IN social networks Moby there are no posts about the January concert in Las Vegas. According to different ones sites About musical events, the latter at the time of writing analysis of the Solo Solo performance took place October 29, 2023 in Los Angeles, and on December 9 at Moby Philadelphia was one of the invited stars on concert In honor of the 125th anniversary of the Deutsche Grammophon label. "Checked" Not found No references to the embarrassment that Russian-speaking media and Telegram channels spoke about in reputable English-speaking resources. There are publications in English, but these are either the posts that have placed pro -Russian on social networks UsersProbably signed on the above media, or notes on sites, affiliated with the Russian Federation.
In addition to the record itself, allegedly from the Moby concert, two screenshots of the alleged artist storiz are distributed on the network as evidence. In his profile on Instagram, the musician, claimed, apologized to the fans:
My deepest apologies to those who attended the concert on January 3 in Las Vegas. My team and I consider the behavior of one of the performers who took part in the warm -up, inappropriate. My team and I am sure that the music concert should not be a scene for political statements. In my work, I always follow the principle of mutual trust. I never double -check my working materials, including those that I rely on as a warm -up in front of my show. My trust is the only cause of this situation. However, I continue to trust people. Sincerely yours, Moby.
About Moby Storiz with an apology, too They did not write No American publications, and there are no traces of such publications in the musician’s account. Previously "verified" repeatedly Reit Messages about how foreign celebrities allegedly declare their anti-Ukrainian position on Instagram storosis. Most often, authors of fakes chose actors and actresses, but sometimes used the names of musicians, for example Madonna or bassist of the System of A Download group Shavo Odadjyana.
As for Moby’s attitude to the full -scale invasion of Russia to Ukraine, then “verified” several anti -war posts found in social networks of the artist at once. For example, February 25, 2022 Musician Laid In Instagram, the video for its song Make Love Fuck War, recorded in the early 2000s, together with the Public Enemy group, and wrote: “The war is terrible, bloody and heartbreaking, without exception. No words can console the dead, dying and suffering. ” In the video published on March 16 of the same year, video musician saidThat the war in Ukraine is especially terrible and stupid, since it is based on “Putin’s reluctance to learn from history” - according to Moby, almost all the last attempts of large states to seize small countries were unsuccessful. Moreover, in February 2014, the singer Supported participants in Euromaidan.
With the help of a reverse search by images, Factchera from the project "ґvar Media" found outthat the video that became the basis of the fake was published In early January 2024, in social networks of the artist Karmina Contain, performing under the pseudonym Mrak. In the original entry (which was mirrors during installation), the anti -Ukrainian slogan did not appear on the stage, and the performance itself was not connected with Moby. In the signature to the video, Contain indicated that the concert was held in Santiago, the capital of Chile, in 2023 (according to site events, December 31). In addition to the changed video, the authors of the fake also imposed on the video another audio track - instead of the composition from Mrak, the track sounds on the video Eternity From Anyma and Chris Vanguard.
Thus, in 2024, Moby did not give a concert in Las Vegas-respectively, during the warm-up before this show, the anti-Ukrainian slogan was not demonstrated, and the artist did not apologize for it. The musician used as evidence was forged, and the fake video distributed over the network was recorded at the performance of another artist in Chile at the end of 2023; At the same time, on the original record, a video sequence and audio traffic was changed.
The earliest of the tracked “verified” publication with fakes appeared on January 8 at 12:44 Moscow time in the Telegram channel “Sheikh Tamir"(143,000 views). Previously this channel dozens of times Facing In our analysis, because he distributed fakes or became their primary source. However, some media and authors of Telegram channels, like Moby from a fake, rarely double-check the materials he published.
Photo on the cover: @moby (Instagram)
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