In early July 2024, the media reported a luxurious car, which was allegedly acquired by the first lady of Ukraine. We checked whether this information corresponds to reality.
The largest Russian media and Telegram channels with reference to the French edition Vérité sachée They wrote that Elena Zelenskaya will soon become the owner of one of the most expensive serial cars in the world - Hypercara Bugatti Tourbillon. A pre -order worth € 4.5 million, the wife of the Ukrainian president allegedly issued in June 2024, when together with her husband I arrived On France on the 80th anniversary of the allied landing in Normandy. As specified in the publications, Zelenskaya became the first owner of the new model, which will be released in only 250 copies in 2026. As evidence, Vérité Cashée is given a video with the story of a certain Jacques Berthen, an employee of the Bugatti dealership in Paris, as well as a copy of the account.
They told about this news "RIA Novosti" Lenta.ru, "Russian newspaper","Vesti.ru","Moscow Komsomolets","Arguments and facts","News" News.ru and other publications. It was widely used in Telegram, including thanks to the channels "Live broadcast"(787,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Sanya in Florida"(449 000),"Pozdnyakov 3.0"(334,000)"Russia now"(210 000) and"Truthfulness"(199 000).
Presentation Hypercara Bugatti Tourbillon It took place on June 20, 2024. This is a new generation luxury car capable of speeding up to 445 km/h. It is already known that only 250 cars will be produced, the production of which will begin in 2026. The expected price of one car is from € 3.8 million.
The primary source News about the expensive purchase of Zelenskaya-online publication Vérité sachée (“Hidden truth” - fr.). His site unfamiliar Google search engine, given the search results for dates no later than June 2024. According to the service Who.is, the domain name Veritecachee.fr was registered on June 22, a few days before the release of the news about the first lady of Ukraine and the luxury car.
On the site there is no section "About us", editorial contacts and a list of its employees. In individuals authors There is Personal Pages where only names are indicated, but there are no photos or email addresses. At the same time, their profiles indicate that employees began to work in the publication on June 2, that is, almost three weeks before the site registration. At the same time, each of them managed to write about 300 notes.
Most publications on the site are news, not journalistic investigations. Although Vérité Cashée is a francoid publication, for some reason, publications are equipped with English-speaking chrohbroters.
The pages of the headings, which can be seen in the links in the site hat, are at least inaccurate. Similar mistakes in design for a real working media are impossible.
News publications themselves look no less suspicious. For example, their headlines are often Start According to the “short name of the article”.
And the first paragraph in Some articles It looks So: “Here are some things that should be taken into account in context. Republicans, Trump, landing and Russia are good, and democrats, Biden, war in Ukraine, large business and pharmaceutical industry are bad. If necessary, add additional information on the topic. ”
All this may indicate the use of artificial intelligence to prepare the bulk of the site pages. Probably the authors set the task of chatbot like ChatGPT, and then copied the result with Prompts - Perhaps because they did not know the French language very well.
As for the articles about Zelenskaya, the published on July 1, there are no such errors and inaccuracies in this text. However, its content nevertheless raises questions. As an evidence that the first lady of Ukraine acquired a car for € 4.5 million, a video is given, the author of which is presented as an employee of the Bugatti car dealership in Paris Jacques Berten.
Judging by the design of the video, it was published on Instagram. The @jacques_Bertin_ls account, where the viral publication appeared, was already by the time the analysis was already writing Deactivated.
The video itself was probably generated by a neural network. In particular, every time Jacques Berten opens his mouth, his teeth look different: either both rows of teeth are visible, then only two elongated upper front tooth, then an even upper row. This characteristic A sign of videos created by artificial intelligence.
As a photo of this person’s profile on Instagram, which is visible in the upper left corner, a screenshot from the video itself was used.
Facts from the project Les Observateurs The France 24 TV channel contacted the Bugatti Paris dealer center, and they reported that a man named Jacques Berten did not work for them.
Another evidence presented in the article Vérité Cashée is an invoice for payment of a car, put up in the name of Elena Zelenskaya.
The details indicate the BSB number, which has nothing to do with France - it is used in Australia.
The name of the Kommer of the Neyoi-Sure-Sen, where the dealer center is located, is indicated with the error: Must Be neuilly-sur-Eine, not Neuly-Sur-Eine.
Invois does not indicate identification number VAT payer, used In the EU countries.
Also, the document does not indicate the currency used to calculate the cost.
July 2, 2024, the day after the scandalous news, in the official Instagram account of the Bugatti Paris dealership was published statement, in which the fact of the transaction with Zelenskaya was categorically refuted. Representatives of the company pointed out a number of errors in the document, and also said that they would sue the authors for falsification for falsification of documents.
On June 28, three days before the appearance of an article about Zelenskaya, the American cybersecurity company Recorded Future published reportin which I recorded the emergence of the website Veritecachee.fr. Experts warned that the site is highly likely to be used to publish dipfaces, as it is included in discovered In March of this year, the Copycop network. It unites several similar sites disguised as the media and throw in the information space inaccurate information.
In October 2023, Russian media and Telegram channels Reported About another expensive purchase made by Zelenskaya. During a visit to the United States, she allegedly acquired jewelry worth more than $ 1 million. Then, as evidence, an article on the Nigerian news site, a fake account and a video of an alleged employee of the Cartier boutique, the role of which was played by a resident of St. Petersburg, was used as evidence.
A few months later, the fake creation scheme remained approximately the same, however, the methods used by disinformers have become more technological. However, in a similar way, information about the expensive purchases of the Greenskoye couple is not released for the first time - "verified" already Disassembled Similar Messages about the acquisition by the Ukrainian president of elite real estate in different countries of the world. All this news turned out to be fakes, and first appeared on fake sites mimicing for foreign media.
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