In March 2024, a fragment of the broadcast of the British television channel was dispersed in social networks, on which the presenters allegedly laugh and share their plans for the weekend. At this time, a picture from the funeral of the Russian oppositionist is shown on the screen behind them. We checked the truthfulness of the viral video.
No later than March 13, Runet began to appear publications This content (punctuation and spelling are preserved): “The hosts of the BBC laugh fervently and discuss plans for the weekend, against the background of the pictures from the grave of Navalny, a minute after how tragically they finished suffering, recalling Navalny.” At the same time, the authors give a video with the logo of the British broadcasting corporation, on which two women really have fun when a picture of a deceased politician is demonstrated on a large screen behind them. Sometimes specifiedWhat before on the air showed a plot about the funeral of Navalny.
According to the TGSTAT service, about a hundred such records appeared in Telegram, which had a total of about 1 million views. Such posts are published in the channels "Ne. Sahar"(279,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Uncle Glory"(174 000),"Zlaya Pruf"(160,000),"Z-News | Army 🅉 18+"(109,000),"Ax | Policy"(36,000),"Partisans"(30,000),"The thoughts of Okhlobystin"(22,000) and many smaller ones (examples here, here And here). The video also posted in "VKontakte", V social networks X, on YouTube and news sites.
February 16, 2024 Office of the Federal Service for the Penfers of the Russian Federation in the Yamal-Nenets District reported About the death of Alexei Navalny in the colony. For several days, thousands of people in cities around the world took part in the memory of the leader of the Russian opposition. The funeral of politics took place At the Borisov cemetery in Moscow on March 1.
According to the posts mentioned above, the photo was shown on the BBC broadcast precisely from the burial ceremony, however, using the reverse search for the image “verified” it found that the picture used was taken earlier and not in Russia. Its author is an agency reporter Associated Press Ebrahim Noruzi, this photo captures the spontaneous memorial in front of the Russian Embassy in Berlin on February 16.
The viral video lasts only 20 seconds, it spreads with Russian subtitles and is not an independent passage of the television, but the recording of the TV screen made on the smartphone. At the same time, the video has a BBC News logo, and at the end the screensaver is shown BBC North West -Units broadcasting in the northwest of England. In the video between the hosts there is such a dialogue:
- Thank you very much. Well, what are your weekend plans? Something interesting?
-Oh, a surprise party for my niece.
- Oh, how cute!
- Yeah, it will be very fun.
“But there will be no surprise if she looks at us.”
- My God, I spilled a surprise! (Laughs.) TS-SC!
- So, so far!
"Verified" studied Account BBC North West on the social network X and found there the original 31-second entry, published on February 17, 2024. IN post The evening release of news was mentioned, and in another tweet Clarifiedthat a funny situation happened on the air on the eve. The video was accompanied by this text from the host Annabel Tiffin: "Coaser Cuamer, Don't worry. Only a few hundred thousand people watch a live broadcast on TV, and millions saw it here on X! Happy birthday your niece! ”
In this record of the ether it is clear that Caumer was forecast for the weather in the UK, and immediately after that she went to the part of the studio where Tiffin was sitting on the couch. Next follows a fragment that was encouraged in Runet. At the same time, in the original, on one of the screens behind the hosts, not a photo of the memorial is shown in memory of Navalny, but a panorama of the evening street. Moreover, both screens form a single image with an animated transmission logo North West Tonight.
An excerpt with a reservation about the Surprise party and really hugged on the network. For example, one From tweets with a video I gained almost 470,000 views, and another - 1.9 million. This video is also hit In popular TV show Jimmy Kimmela. At the same time, the recording was not shown anywhere with a photo of Navalny on the screen.
As for the party itself, the presenter later She saidthat her accidental oversight Not spoiled surprise. Though the birthday girl and I looked Viral video, she thought that it was about another niece of Kaumer, since both girls Born One day.
Thus, unknown (in Another times) fabricated the video on behalf of the BBC. They used a video that dispersed along the English -language segment of the network a month earlier, and changed the image on the screen, imposing a picture of the Berlin spontaneous memorial in memory of the Russian opposition.
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