Did the White House spokesman say that the US and Ukraine won the Second World War, fighting together against Hitler and Stalin?

On May 9, 2024, a video spread on the Internet in which Karin Jean-Pierre states: the United States and Ukraine during the war fought together against Nazi Germany and the USSR. We checked whether she really said that.

On May 9, 2024, a passage from the White House briefing, as claimed, dedicated to the 79th anniversary of the Second World War, appeared in the Russian media and social networks. When asked by the journalist why Washington does not condemn the manifestations of Nazism in Ukraine, the press secretary of the US President Karin Jean-Pierre allegedly replied: “79 years ago, the United States and Ukrainian allies fought together against the totalitarian regimes of Hitler and Stalin.”

Many Russian media They were indignant Such an interpretation of the past. For example, "Moscow Komsomolets"Published an article with the subtitle" White House: the Second World War was won by the United States and Ukraine, which fought against Stalin. " IN Telegram The posts with quote Jean-Pierre scored, according to TGSTAT at the time of writing this analysis, more than 2 million views. Among others, a member of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation was written about the allegedly made in the White House Alexey Pushkov and publicist Alexander Nevzorov. Users Facebook, "VKontakte" X And Instagram They also posted a video on their pages, shot, as claimed, during a briefing of the US Presidential Administration. In the English -language segment of the Internet, this video too attracted noticeable attention.

The alleged statement by Jean-Pierre commented on the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Maria Zakharova. “These, forgive me, people pose a threat, primarily for US citizens, their distorted consciousness and the desire to destroy the consciousness of others. Biden's monsters insulted the memory of millions of victims of the Second World War, ” - quotes Speaker of the Russian Foreign Ministry of the Russian Newspaper.

The viral video shows the dialogue of the journalist of the newspaper The Independent Andrew Finberg with the White House press secretary Karin Jean-Pierre. To the question “Why do we not condemn the manifestations of Ukrainian Nazism and continue to pay for it from our pocket?” The representative of the US presidential administration replies: “79 years ago, the United States and our Ukrainian allies fought together against the totalitarian regimes of Hitler and Stalin. Although Berlin is now our ally, the threat from the east is preserved. Therefore, we will continue to support Ukraine with all the means available to us. ” The video is distributed in two versions: full (28 seconds) and abbreviated (17 sec.), In which only Jean-Pierre’s answer is left. Both versions are equipped with Russian -speaking subtitles.

Some Russian media They saythat this dialogue took place at a briefing dedicated to the anniversary of the end of World War II. Note that she ended The surrender of Japan on September 2, 1945, and on May 9, Russia and some other countries celebrate Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War, because it was on May 9, 1945 at 00:43 Moscow time (or May 8 at 22:43 in the Central European) was Signed Act on the surrender of Germany.

The decoding of all the White House briefings can be found on the official site US President, and video recordings are available on the platform C-Span and in YouTube. None of these resources we were able to find information about the meeting of Jean-Pierre with journalists dedicated to the end of World War II in Europe.

Judging by the clothes of a spokesman and journalists, viral personnel were taken from a broadcast briefingheld on May 7, 2024. It was a regular meeting of Jean-Pierre with media representatives, not related to any memorable dates. "Verified" studied Decoding And Video recording That briefing: During the event, neither Stalin, nor Hitler, nor the Second World War were never mentioned.

The viral video is glued from different fragments of the broadcast and, apparently, edited using neural networks. The basis of the first part of the fake lay the moment (18:30) on which Fainberg asks the question of US actions in the light of the humanitarian crisis in the gas sector. The second basis for the video that was dispersed along social networks was a fragment, Starting In the broadcast after five and a half minutes, another journalist asked Jean-Pierre to comment on the desire of President Romania Klaus Johannis (he is that day Arrived to Washington) head NATO. To this, the White House spokesman in the original broadcast replies: “The president [Biden] was looking forward to the opportunity to accept the President of Johannis in order to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the day that Romania became [our] strong and unshakable NATO ally, and was impatiently awaiting the leadership of Johannis to NATO and a large contribution, which Romania introduced NATO to the safety, especially in the Black Sea region, and, obviously, their great support to Ukraine against Russia's aggression. ” On top of these two fragments glued together, fake audio tracks were applied, probably generated by artificial intelligence.

The creators of the fake not only put another audio traffic on a video collected from two different fragments of broadcasting, but with the help of neural networks they changed the movement of the Faynberg and Jean-Pierre lips, so that it coincides with the question of Nazism in Ukraine and the answer about the fight against Stalin and Hitler. It can be seen that the gestures and the general facial expressions of the journalist and the press secretary in the original and fake videos coincide, but the lips move in different ways. There are many programs and online services to carry out such manipulations with videos (for example, Gooey.ai or Sync.ai).

The earliest publication of the dipteum we found appeared in the Telegram channel "Sheikh Tamir"May 8 at 15:50 Moscow time. By the way, on the same day at 21:29 "Tsargrad" published article About the alleged statement by Jean-Pierre, which began with the words: "Dipfake actively spreads over the network." At the same time, the TV channel did not mention that he himself took part in its distribution, by an hour earlier article With the heading "Americans with Ukrainians fought against Hitler and Stalin: they rewrote the story in the White House." At the time of writing this analysis, both publications were available on the Constantinople website without any clarification or amendments.

Thus, Jean-Pierre did not say that the Second World War was won by the United States and Ukraine, which together fought against Hitler and Stalin's regimes. The video cited as evidence is the gluing of two fragments of the press conference, which took place in the White House on May 7, 2024 and on which the theme of World War II did not rise at all. Fake audio track with the voice of Jean-Pierre was created using artificial intelligence, and the video was changed using a neural network.

Photo on the cover: The press service of the White House

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