In March 2024, the data allegedly collected by the Social Blade was distributed on social networks. According to their statistics, almost 9.5 million Ukrainians watched the president of Russia online. We checked the veracity of these messages.
On February 29, 2024, Vladimir Putin addressed the annual message to the Federal Assembly. The next day, there were reports on the Web that, according to Social Blade, 27 million people around the world followed the Russian president on YouTube. “It turned out that 35% of them were in Ukraine! Very bad news for Zelensky, ”writes the Telegram channel of the publicationUkraine.ru"(180,000 views at the time of writing this analysis). Channel "Kostyan Cat - Official Channel"(114,000 views) clarifies that we are talking about 9.45 million Ukrainians. The authors of the channel brought slightly different data "GCD in Ukraine"(11,000 views): They report 37% of the audience from Ukraine, this is almost 10 million people.
According to the TGSTAT service, at the time of writing this analysis, about 120 similar posts were published in Telegram, which have gained a total of almost 1 million views. Such records posted channels "Ne. Sahar"(278,000 views),"Mriya"(50,000), Nina Vatt (40,000), "Pavel Onishchenko"(23,000),"Nasurabi"(16,000) and others. Similar publications are found in public and personal pages of VKontakte users (examples here, here, here, here And here), as well as in "Zen".
Social Blade - A project that collects data from YouTube, X, Twitch, Daily Motion, Tiktok, Instagram and other platforms, and then uses it to create statistical graphs and diagrams to analyze the popularity of blogs. By data Service, currently monitors the statistics of almost 63 million YouTube channels. However, in none of the publications mentioned above, a reference to the study of the Social Blade about the viewing of Putin’s performance was given. Instead, Some The posts are given a minute video on this topic or its screenshot. In the upper right corner of the video there is a logo of the American magazine Wired.
The video is a cut of fragments from several videos, including passages of Putin’s performance, and is accompanied by English -language subtitles:
Social Blade: More than 27 million people watched Putin's message on the air.
YouTube statistics showed that more than 27 million users around the world watched the message of Vladimir Putin on the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on the air. The calculation was fucked on the basis of all the broadcasts of this event on YouTube. Most of the views fall on users from Eastern Europe, including Ukraine. More than 35% of the views of the message of Vladimir Putin on the air were received from Internet users in Ukraine. 54% - Russian users and residents of Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions. Earlier, on February 25, the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky held the press conference “Ukraine. 2024 ". A direct broadcast of the press conference of Vladimir Zelensky collected 21,000 views. 97% of the audience, observing the event online, were in the territory controlled by the Ukrainian authorities.
The comparison given in the text is obviously manipulative. If you believe the subtitles, then Putin's views were collected from all YouTube channels, where the broadcast was carried out. However, for some reason they compare them with the audience of the press conference of Zelensky on only one Freedom channel, where Record With Russian voice acting scored 21,000 views (at the time of writing this analysis of the video, 22,800 views). Moreover, on YouTube you can find many other channels that broadcast the same performance of the Ukrainian president, and some of these records Sicked Hundreds of thousands of views.
“Verified” could not detect this video or mention of such a study by the Social Blade site Wired, nor in social networks of this publication (Facebook, X, YouTube, Instagram, Tiktok). There is no video on the views of Putin's performance on the resources of the British version of the magazine (website, YouTube, Instagram). At the same time, the fact of the project Stopfake found out what was used in the video video Eight years ago, on which the Social Blade analyst Jena Arnold does not present the results of the study, but explains the principles of the service tool.
On site and in social networks Social Blade No research on how YouTube users from different countries followed Putin's message to the Federal Assembly. “Verified” contacted the company support and asked to comment on viral messages. The representative of the Social Blade replied that the service did not collect such statistics. “We have not made such statements, we do not track the data of direct broadcasts,” said the manager for working with networks and partners Marcus Stringer.
The earliest appearance of the video was “tested” in the pro-Russian Telegram channel "Sheikh Tamir"(173,000 views), which has already been dozens of times Caught on the distribution of fabricated photos and videos. There, a post on the allegedly conducted Social Blade study appeared on March 1 at 12:59 pm Moscow time. In addition, in the channels "Tasking News"(2900 views) and"Shkvarka 2.0"(1500), good acquaintances It was written to our regular readers that this video was sent by an anonymous subscriber - with such notes, fake materials are often launched into the information space.
Earlier, two similar fakes began with the “Sheikh Tamir”. So, in December 2023, the EURONEWS television channel allegedly released A video about the Gallup survey, according to which 75% of Ukrainian Internet users watched Putin's “direct line”. In January 2024, the same Telegram channel reported that the publication Politico allegedly Published The video about another Social Blade study, according to which the interest in Zelensky on the Internet for 2023 fell by 63%.
Thus, the news that Putin’s performance before the federal meeting on YouTube was watched by 27 million people, a third of which were in Ukraine is based on a non -existent study from fake video. And although it is not known for how many people looked at YouTube, the Telegram channel “We can explain” I noticedthat two -hour speech did not cause a stir among Russian viewers - according to data Mediascope, in 2024, Putin's message watched almost two times fewer people than a year earlier.
Photo on the cover: screenshot video on the site Kremlin.ru
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