In mid -December 2024, screenshots of the viral post in X with comments were dispersed on social networks, proving that the inhabitants of the United States are very respect for the Russian president. We checked the authenticity of these screenshots.
On December 19, a annual direct line with Vladimir Putin was held in Russia, during which the Russian president answered questions from citizens of the Russian Federation and foreign journalists. On the same day, a screenshot of the earlier tweet of a certain Wendy Parker (@whendycomes) appeared in the Russian-language segment of social networks, which allegedly on behalf of the “many people” wanted to ask Putin to “stop LGBTK+Friky”. The tweet seemed to gain 470,000 views, and some comments of ordinary Americans under it (“no questions. It would be cool if he became our president”, “Vladimir Putin, please restore order in our country”, etc.) - a large number of likes.
The main platform for the spread of these screenshots with the corresponding commentary was Telegram, where they were published by channels "NE.SAHAR"(224,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Solovyov"(188 000),"Uncle Glory"(183 000),"Russia now"(157 000), Voblya (118 000) and others.
Annual press conference of Vladimir Putin took place December 19, 2024 and for the third time was combined with a straight line. Within four and a half hours, the politician answered the questions of both ordinary citizens and journalists, including foreign ones. Most of the issues concerned the social problems of Russians, but international topics were also touched upon, such as the war in Ukraine and events in Syria. You could ask your question Five In different ways: through the site, SMS, MMS, mobile application and social networks.
Twit Wendy Parker was allegedly published on December 17, two days before the press conference. Judging by the blue checkmark, the Parker account verified, that is, its owner at the time of receipt of the status confirmed her identity and actively led the blog.
However, “verified” not only did not find any information about a woman named Wendy Parker with a face depicted in the photo profile, but also found that the @whendycomes account at the time of writing. does not exist. There are also no signs that it existed before and, for example, was blocked. There are no mention of the user with such a nickname in the posts of other users.
But what about the commentators of the sensational post? Social networks X are also not known users of Mike Brendy (@mbrendy2), Oliviaa7 (@ollyt9), Chloe (@chloeve61), and the user @Jamescarty It simply uses the name James (without the surname Cart and photographs), is not signed for anyone and has only one subscriber. Thus, none of the four commentators whose names can be seen on viral screenshots in reality do not exist. And this despite the fact that here three of them were represented as verified.
According to the TGSTAT service, the earliest publication of screenshots of comments on the tweet Wendy Parker took place on December 19 at 14:58 Moscow time, when they were posted by the Telegram channel "Bear". At 15:11 in the channel "Odessa Za Victory"Separately laid out the screenshot of Twita Vendi Parker himself, and later the photographs were already actively distributed together. Both channels previously Found In the analysis of "tested" as the primary sources of misinformation.
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