At the end of February 2024, Telegram spread the words allegedly said by a member of the House of US representatives Katie Porter: “Pedophilia is not a crime. This is a type of personality identification. ” We checked whether the congression really Such She said.
On February 26, more than 300 Russian-speaking Telegram channels made publications about the statement of the Member of the House of US Representatives Katie Porter. Allegedly, during his online sales, at the hearing in Congress Porter said: “Pedophilia is not a crime. This is a type of personality identification, ”and also as if she accused people who condemn the rapists. Porter in their Telegram channels was shared by users such as Deputy Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Anna Kuznetsova (425,000 views on the day of writing this analysis, according to the TGSTAT service), TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov (380 000), blogger Ruslan Ostashko (112 000). This news was also published by some Media, Bloggers, users "VKontakte","Zena" YouTube, X And Facebook.
Although the video from Katie Porter appeared in Telegram channels in February 2024, the Congresswomen performed on December 14, 2022 during the hearing in the US Congress. At the hearing, they discussed the problem of violence against representatives of LGBT after shooting In the Club Q gay bar in the city of Colorado-Springs, five people were killed and dozens wounded.
Then, in December 2022, some federal Russian Media Already wrote about the performance of Porter in the US Congress, which allegedly caused indignation among members of the Republican Party of the United States and users of social networks. In February 2024, the same news re -hit the Russian information.
Most Telegram channels shared the primary source of the quote-a passage of a video of Porter speech. Nevertheless, in a 20-second clip There are no words "pedophilia is not a crime, it is a type of personality identification." Porter says: "This label of a groomer and pedophile implies that a person is a criminal and commits criminal acts only on the basis of his personality, sexual orientation, gender identity." To understand what we are talking about, you need to listen statement Congressed from the beginning (her speech begins about 2:49:33).
At the beginning of his performance, Porter mentions study 2022 "Digital Hate: the role of social networks in the spread of dangerous lies about LGBT+people." This study appreciated the popularity of tweets in which members of the LGBT community were equated to groomers, “predators” and pedophiles. Gruming (from English Groming) is a process of establishing a trusting relationship with a child or adolescence for subsequent sexual exploitation. Porter says that the identification of LGBT representatives with groomers is “an eternal lie that positions LGBT+ people as a threat to children, limiting their access to public places and inciting fear and violence.”
Then, at the mark 2:51:05, an excerpt circulating on social networks begins. In the context of the previously said, it becomes clear that Porter is not talking about pedophiles, but about LGBT representatives, who are called pedophiles only on the basis of their sexual and gender identification.
The first quote from context on February 26, 2024 was published by TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov. However, this is not his first publication about Katie Porter's statement. December 17, 2022 Solovyov He shared the Zergulio post, in which the same passage of the performance was published. Zergulio He referred to the Telegram channel of the Russian public figure and former State Duma deputy Semyon Bagdasarovwho published this video before and wrote: “A member of the House of US Representatives from the Democratic Party Katie Porter believes that pedophilia is not a crime, this is a type of personality identification.” Nevertheless, we managed to find the most early publication with Catie Porter cut in a telegram channelMadame Secretary". On December 15, 2022, the author published a passage of Porter’s statement and wrote a comment: “Pedophilia is not a crime, this is a type of personality identification,” which later went through hundreds of other channels. The author of the channel "Madame Secretary" Dmitry Kholodnov often appears in ether pro -government "Radio of Russia" and in the program "Labyrinth Karnaukhov"On" Solovyov Live ". In his telegram, Solovyov periodically shares posts Kholodnova on the topic of LGBT community in the United States, so it is not surprising that a quote from Katie Porter also appeared in Solovyov’s channel.
Thus, Congresswomen Katie Porter did not claim that pedophilia is not a crime. She condemned users of social networks who called LGBT people pedophiles only because of their gender identity and sexual orientation. Back in 2022, Russian Telegram channels distributed a distorted and torn from context a quote from Porter. And in 2024, this story was again useful to the Solovyov channel, causing this time even more resonance in social networks.
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- AP News. Posts MISCHARACTERIZE CONGRESSWOMAN’S Comments on Anti-LGBTQ RHETORIC
- Politifact. U.S. Rep. KATIE PORTER DIDN’t Pedophilia an ‘Identity’
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