In February 2024, the news dispersed in social networks and the media that Greg Ebbot put the Russian president as an example of the American, comparing the quality of their work. We checked whether the politician made such a statement.
According to news notes and posts in Telegram channels, the governor of Texas Greg Ebbot in an interview with Fox News praised the activity of Vladimir Putin and called on Joe Bayden to be equal to the Russian colleague. As evidence, almost all such publications provide a short fragment of the performance of Ebbot with Russian subtitles. “Biden needs to learn from Putin the ability to work in the interests of his country ... If only the president had dealt with real internal problems and would not try to play with Putin, then everything would be different” - such words of the governor Quote In most posts. The alleged statement of Ebbot was reported by television channels "Ren-TV"(twice) And "Tsargrad", Newspapers"Moscow Komsomolets","Sight" And "News", Radio Sputnikas well as publications Eadaily, "The arguments of the week","Reporter","Military Review","Paragraph","Notepad Russia","Ukraine.ru","Yamal-Media" And "Own correspondent".
According to the TGSTAT service, from February 1 to February 7, about 1000 records appeared in Telegram on the alleged statement of the Texas governor, which had a total of more than 10 million views. The viral video or quotes from it placed the channels of TV presenters Vladimir Solovyov (228,000 views) and Ruslan Ostashko (110,000), as well as "Operation Z: Warrixes of Russian Spring"(435 000),"Dmitry Nicotin"(347 000),"Ne. Sahar"(257 000),"Russia now"(255,000),"Quickly and accurately"(236 000), Colonelcassad (229,000), "Explains Readovka"(220,000), ATEO Breaking (211 000), "Truthfulness"(170 000),"Uncle Glory"(184 000),"Dmitry Vasilet"(169,000),"Putin in Telegram"(157 000), Voblya (147 000), Rus_criminal (132 000), "Pool N3"(122 000),"Bullet"(116 000),"The first folk"(114 000),"All -seeing Eye 🇺🇦 Ukraine | News"(111,000, already deleted)," Open Ukraine | Open Ukraine ”(twice: 108 000 And 66,000), "Militarist"(88 000),"Russian format"(69,000),"Mishovets Yegor"(69,000),"Freshness"(66 000),"Release Kraken!"(65,000)," Yakov Kedmi "(twice: 64,000 And 57 000), Fox News Russia (59,000), "Politjoystik / Politjoystic"(55,000),"Military observer"(54,000),"Tucker Carlson"(53,000),"Sexton"(45,000),"Signal"(41 000),"Info DPR"(38,000) and others. In addition, hundreds of similar posts were published in"VKontakte"(Examples here, here And here) and in "Zen" (here, here And here).
The viral video lasts 51 seconds, the logo of the Fox News TV channel is noticeable in its lower left corner. On the recording, Ebbot says:
We [in Texas] through our border every day passes more people than come to New York in a week or a month. It is outrageous that they say that nothing can do anything about it. And finally, given, the fact is that there is only one reason why all this happens. All because Joe Biden abolished all four measures introduced by Donald Trump, which led to the least number of cases of illegal crossing of the border over 40 years. If only the president had been engaged in real internal problems, and would not try to play with Putin, whom he needs to learn to work in the interests of the country, then everything would be different. He needs to follow immigration laws. And if the Biden administration observed immigration laws adopted by Congress, then the mayor of New York, the head of New Jersey, Chicago, etc. They would not experience such problems.
"Verified" found the full version of the speech of the Governor of Texas on site And YouTube channel Fox News, where the video was published on January 4, 2024. It lasts four and a half minutes, and at the beginning the host Dana Perino He asks the Republican policy to comment on the actions of mayors and governors from the Democratic Party of the United States in connection with the growth of the number of migrants who arrived in their cities and the States through Texas.
Ebbot divided his answer into three parts. Firstly, according to him, the migration crisis, Warm In January 2024, he demonstrated the hostility of the Democrats in relation to migrants. “They allegedly are waiting for their arrival, and when they actually come, they say:“ No, no, we don’t need them here. Send them back to Texas, ”says Ebbot. Secondly, the politician believes that in the states where the Democrats win the elections, there is enough space for migrants: “This is absurd to think that there is no place in New York or New Jersey. Do they think that there is a del-rio in the Texas needle? ” After this phrase, the Texas governor Starts Say the words from the viral video, but they are partially different.
Beginning (to the mark 00:28) and the ending (00: 40–00: 51) the abbot speech from the video distributed in Runet completely coincides with the fact that the governor speaks on the record from Fox News (01:11-01:39 And 01:46-01:57 respectively). However, a fragment of the viral video with the mention of Putin (00: 28–00: 39) is completely absent in the version of the American television channel. Differences occur for those seconds when, instead of an abbot, shots with illegal migrants are shown on the screen (01:40-01:45). In the original, the governor, when his face was not shown, listed measures taken by the Trump administration to combat illegal migration: Remain in Mexico, Title 42, Catch and Release And Building the wall On the border with Mexico.
Since the viral video was also distributed in the English -language segment of the Internet, on it Turned Attention of the factor Reuters. “I can confirm that the sound was changed and there was no interview with such a part,” the representative of Fox News told the agency in an email. Haley Crowe, assistant to the press secretary of the office of Ebbotta, in response to a request for a comment, the Fox News roller sent Reuters and a transcript An interview with the governor, where Putin is not mentioned. In turn, the factorycrackers Newsweek Noticed The strangeness in the fragment that caused the excitement: speaking of President Bayden, the governor does not pronounce the article of The, as the English grammar requires this instead of if only the President).
An excerpt from an interview with Fox News, which probably became the direct basis for falsification, was posted on the official YouTube channel Ebbota and in his account on the social network X, but this video is almost 6 seconds. Briefly speaking. The fact is that a fragment mounted in the video with the mention of Putin is longer than those words of the governor that he actually pronounced, so the creators of the fake had to mount an additional video row (00: 34–00: 40). For this, last year's Personnel Migrants intersections of the American-Mexican border. In addition, on the installation in the video they wiped out a note that the footage in the American city of Igl-Pass was shot on Sunday.
In the foreign -language segments of the network, a fabricated video spreads immediately with Russian subtitles, from which we can conclude that it was first published in Runet. At the same time, it is difficult to determine the source unequivocally: in the signatures to the video, several options for writing the surname Ebbot (or did not mention it at all) were used, and the words attributed to politics were translated differently. The earliest post that was tracked “verified” appeared on February 1 at 16:47 Moscow time in the Telegram channel “Sheikh Tamir"(130,000 views). This channel mentioned In more than 100 of our analysis.
Thus, the governor of Texas Greg Ebbot did not advise Biden to learn from Putin the ability to work in the interests of his country. The video confirming these words was fabricated with the help of a voice, most likely generated by a neural network. Earlier, the authors of fakes have repeatedly used such and technologies: for example, imitated the actor's speech Tom Cruise And mayor of Denver T -shirt of Johnston.
Photo on the cover: @Govabbott (X)
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