At the end of April 2024, Russian -speaking resources distributed sensational news: allegedly at the estate of the candidate from the Republican Party of the United States in the upcoming elections, they found an auditing device established by the current administration. We checked the reliability of such publications.
In the posts of Telegram channels, it was reported that one of the security guards of the former US President Donald Trump found a hidden recording device in his work office in his estate of Mar-A-Lla. It is assumed that it was established by order of President Joe Bayden FBI agents, conducting Searches in the residence in August 2022 in the case of improper storage of documents that the former owner of the White House retained after leaving his post. The proof of Biden's involvement in the investigation was allegedly the court ruling of April 22, 2024, according to which the justification for the search was made public in an unequivated form, without bills.
Information about the discovered bug extended in Russian with reference to the American edition of Flagstaff Post-in particular, in Telegram channels "Russia now"(201,000 views at the time of writing of the analysis),"Observer"(175 000),"Putin in Telegram"(150 000),"Sheikh Tamir"(125,000) and"Mordor's voice"(117 000).
A search conducted by FBI agents in August 2022, a search in the Florida estate of Donald Trump caused a large scandal. On the one hand, this event confirmed all the seriousness of the hype around the classified documents that the politician took out of the White House in the days of his presidency and kept it at Villa in Florida. On the other hand, the supporters of the former president did not miss the case accuse Joe Biden is that he at least knew about the search in his house at that time the most likely opponent in the 2024 elections in advance, as a maximum, he initiated him. One of the reasons for suspicion was then the publication of the arguments of the US Department of Justice to issue a search permit. More than half of that 38-page document was promoted-closed with black stripes. Some Republicans suggested that in this way the ministry wanted to hide the details inconvenient for the current administration contained in the document (in particular, the role of Biden). However, the department denied this version, saying that information about the FBI agents participating in the investigation was hidden, about witnesses who, if their names were published, can be subjected to “retaliation, pressure, intimidation and even threats of personal security”, as well as information that potentially capable of preventing the investigation. Later, secret documents were found at home at Joe Biden - It turned out that he Keeped There are confidential information from the times of their work in the Senate (1973–2009) and Vice President (2009–2017).
“Verified” did not find any evidence that a scandal for bugs in Trump’s residence recently arose in the United States. Not only authoritative American media, but even a local yellow press, do not write about this. A message of this kind would inevitably arouse tremendous interest in the country, especially now, six months before the presidential election. The only case in the history of the United States, when the president has adopted his powers ahead of schedule, Watergate scandal - It was connected just with listening to competitors. The same applies to the alleged publication of the full version of the justification from the US Ministry of Justice-there is no information about this in any major sources.
Nevertheless, the article referred to in Russian telegram channels really I went out On the website Flagstafft.com April 26, 2024. She, in turn, contains a link to youtube published the day before videoIn which a certain blogger named Phil (appearing only for a few seconds) talks about the circumstances of the discovery of “bugs” and includes an audio recording that supposedly confirming the find. On this entry, one unknown reports to another unknown about the find - this can be a conversation between two people. At the same time, both the blogger’s voice and the voices of the interlocutors sound quite strange - too minted, as if the text is pronouncing the synthesizer of speech. The movements of the man’s lips from the video that do not coincide with the speech, only strengthen suspicions. It is very likely that a small passage, where he appears in the frame, was generated by a neural network.
YouTube channel, where the video was posted and which only 169 people were signed, was created in January 2024 and published only three videos (and on one day, April 25). The video with sensational news about the wiretap in the Trump estate at the time of writing this parsing was watched by a little more than 800 people.
As for the publication of Flagstaff Post, on its site as of April 26, the section “About us” said that this media since 1992 has been a reliable source of news ”for the residents of the city of Flavstuff in Arizona. However, there is no information about the publication on the network, and the site itself, according to the signature, was created in 2024. Moreover, no later than May 1, the design of the main page has changed dramatically - now the publication called The Boston Times, and all links lead to the similarly designed website Thebostontimes.org. "Tested" wrote about him in March, when exactly this portal Published Material about 300 kg of cocaine, allegedly exported by the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky from Argentina. This story was also replicated by pro-Russian media, Telegram channels and accounts in social networks.
Apparently, the Flagstaff Post is another English -speaking site, disguised as a real news edition, but created only to throw fake news into the information space. The scheme of their distribution each time is the same: some kind of evidence (for example, audio or video) is published on an almost empty YouTube channel, then the news based on this video is placed by the fake media, and subsequently, under the guise of investigation, the proximal media spread it. In addition to the case with Zelensky and cocaine, “verified” the numerous Throwing On foreign real estate of the Ukrainian president, as well as the connection fund His wives with the trading of children. At least part of these sites was also united by a common server with the Russian IP address.
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