In early December, an excerpt from the EURONEWS television channel broadcast, where in the running line Vladimir Zelensky and Ukrainians are called locusts. We checked the authenticity of this video.
On December 5, a passage from the news release of the EURONEWS television channel, which tells about the negotiations of the German Chancellor Olaf Sholts with Vladimir Zelensky, was widely dispersed in Telegram channels. In the running line at the bottom of the screen, the editor’s messages allegedly accidentally hit, where he writes: “Ali, when you mount the locust with the Scholtsa, add more smiles. There is too gloomy. More joyful locusts and his people. ” The channels that have published this video accompany it with the signature: "This is how Europeans really call Ukrainians among themselves."
The video appeared in Telegram channels "Uncle Glory"(182,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Russia now • News"(177 000),"Putin in Telegram"(176 000),"Kostyan Cat - Official Channel"(111 000),"Three heroes and Zelensky addict"(95,000),"Scott Ritter in Telegram"(60 000) and others.
The plot talks about the meeting of Olaf Sholts with Vladimir Zelensky, which took place on December 2, 2024. Then the German Chancellor for the first time in two years visited Kyiv for negotiations with the President of Ukraine. At this meeting, politics discussed issues of military assistance to Germany and mutual cooperation of the two countries. Based on the results of the Chancellor negotiations declared On the additional supply of weapons in the amount of € 650 million.
In the upper right corner of the viral video, the logo of the EURONEWS television channel is visible, the leading voice of the host tells about the past meeting of two leaders. In the lower part of the screen is a running line, in which you can read the insulting statement of the editor. And on the right - a section with comments from social networks. Judging by the published plots on the official EURONEWS website, such comments are usually included in direct broadcasts. The EURONEWS running line does not use on its air at all.
The channel does not save the video of the completed broadcasts, but this plot From the hungering video, it is really published on the official website of Euronews. The duration of the original video is 1:16, it tells about the visit of Olaf Sholts to Kyiv and the joint press conference of two leaders. Viral roller It begins At the mark 0:38, immediately after the chancellor’s speech, where he explains his choice not to supply long -range missiles to Ukraine. Scholz in his speech emphasizes that this decision should not be perceived as a refusal to support, which remains comprehensive. This moment was cut out of the enclosed video. In the plot published on the official website, there is also no running line from below, as in other similar issues of the channel.
It can be assumed that Euronews noticed the oversight of their editor and published an edited version of the ether. However, there is no information that the editor of a large television channel called Ukrainians locusts in any authoritative source. The video was encouraged mainly in Russian-speaking Telegram channels, and there are also posts On the social network X. It is unlikely that such an error of editors on the air could remain an unnoticed English -speaking audience and other media.
In their publications about the editorial error on the air of Euronews Telegram channels also applied another video. It also captures an excerpt from a live broadcast about the visit of Sholts to Kyiv, but of another television channel. In the upper left and lower corners, the logo of the German edition of Deutsche Welle is visible. The correspondent talks about the past meeting, and on the left side of the screen shows a section of comments from the social networks on the hashtag #For_DW with insulting statements to Zelensky. How this video proves the presence of an editorial error on Euronews - it is unclear, but in this video there are nuances indicating a fake.
Deutsche Welle, like Euronews, does not save its direct broadcasts. However, judging by ether For December 26, DW does not have a section with comments from the audience in their direct broadcasts.
On the Platform X Publication on the hashtag #for_DW absent. At the same time, some posts that surfaced in a viral video as comments on the air are really published in X. For example, such a commentary user with the nickname @realmrjoeb PublishedBut it was an answer to the post of Olaf Sholts about his trip to Kyiv. The publication was posted on December 3, although the ether itself was the day before, on the day of the Scholtsa's trip. The same situation with other comments: posts @Carlonepierre3 And @taseenb Also published on December 3.
First fast About the error of the EURONEWS editor, which managed to find “verified”, appeared in the Telegram channel “Odessa ZA Victory!” December 5 at 12:16 pm Moscow time. The publication contained only screenshots from fake reporting EURONEWS and the video allegedly from DW. Initially, these posts began to spread. The fabricated EURONEWS video first appeared only the next day - it Published Telegram channel "Bear" at 06:40 Moscow time.
We assume that both viral videos were combined from the original Euronews and DW plots, but with the help of any available video editor they were applied to misinforming elements: the running line allegedly with a message from the editor or comments from social networks that discredit Vladimir Zelensky. This common method of creating fakes about Ukraine, “verified” analyzed several Similar The video is only in the last month. At the same time, some of them were the original source also served as channels "Odessa ZA Victory!" And "Bear". The rhetoric, in which Zelensky is compared with the locust, is also popular with propagandists: “verified” has been disassembled by such fakes since the beginning of 2023. First fake image The cover of the satirical magazine Humor Times with Vladimir Zelensky, depicted in the form of locusts eating money, became. Then there were several graffiti In different cities of the world, where the Ukrainian president is also drawn in the form of an insect. But not only the subject united all these images, but also the fact that none of them turned out to be true.
Thus, on the air of Euronews there was no running line in which the editor calls Zelensky and “his people” by locust. As well as there were no offensive comments from social networks in the release of Deutsche Welle. The videos distributed on the network are combined from the original records of the broadcasts of these television channels, which, apparently, with the help of a video editor added misleading elements.
Photo on the cover: social networks
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