In February 2025, a video was dispersed in social networks, which the Hollywood actor allegedly published on social networks. It is claimed that the record shows a game in which gamers are invited to beat the president of Ukraine. We checked the authenticity of this story.
The first reports of the alleged publication appeared in Runet on February 18. “Sylvester Stallone posted a video how he plays a game where he needs to beat [Vladimir] Zelensky. "Rocky retired. But even retired, he is still in business." Previously Trump appointed Stallone (as well as Mela Gibson and John Voit.-Approx. Ed.) With his ambassador to Hollywood, ”the Telegram channel post said“Ne. Sahar"(228,000 views at the time of writing this analysis).
According to the TGSTAT service, by the time this analysis of this analysis, more than 340 similar Russian -speaking posts appeared in Telegram, which totally gained almost 2 million views. Similar notes published channels "Uncle Glory"(179,000 views),"Solovyov"(126 000), Rus_criminal (104,000), "Kostyan Cat - Official Channel"(102 000),"The first folk"(93,000),"Falcon"(80,000) and others. The same video is found on VKontakte (examples here, here And here), "Classmates" (here And here), X, Threads*, Tiktokas well as on YouTube and other platforms. Among the media and news sites they wrote about this "Tsargrad","Gazeta.ru","Belarus today" And Newsland.
Viral 25-second video is a recording of a smartphone screen, which allegedly shows a story on a verified page Stallone on Instagram*. The publication provides, as states, an excerpt from a certain video game in the first person in which a gamer in boxing gloves can beat a person similar to the president of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky. The location repeats environment his work office. In addition, in the video it sounds melody From a series of films about the boxer of Rocky Balboa, whose role was played by Stallone for decades, and an English -language inscription is given: “Rocky retired. But even being retired, he is still in business. ” Also, in the alleged story, there was supposedly a link to Steam - A platform where you can buy and/or download computer games.
To begin with, “verified” tried to track the source of the viral video. The earliest publication with this video, which we were able to detect, I went out February 18, 2025 at 13:14 Moscow time in the above-mentioned Telegram channel "NE. SAHAR". Two minutes later, the same post appeared in the channel "Before everyone else. Well, almost. Special operation"(6900 views). Both These resource already mentioned In dozens of analysis, “checked”-often as the primary source of the spread of fakes, including fake instagram storis.
In the upper part of the viral video, there is a temporary mark indicating that the screen recording was made about 18 hours after the publication of the alleged story. For the first time “verified”, she paid attention to posts about this video allegedly posted by Stallone, on February 18 at 15:23, that is, two hours after the records in the channels “NE. SAHAR” and “before everyone else. Well, almost. Special operation ". However, at that time, there was no story on the artist on Instagram, although such publications by default Available Within 24 hours.
It can be assumed that the viral video hit the network after the actor's story was hidden or deleted. However, it was “verified” that the same screen recording is distributed in social networks, although on Stallon on Instagram Signed Almost 19 million users. It looks strange that in at least 18 hours only one subscriber managed to fix the artist’s post. There are no references to this resonance story in any large English-speaking media, nor on thematic fan pages dedicated to the work of Stallone and its activity in social networks. In addition, in no post we did not find links to the initial publication, so it is impossible to check the presence of its archival copies.
We also note that when we checked the actor’s page, he was signed by 73 users. The viral video indicates another number of subscriptions - 70.
As for the game itself, which can supposedly be purchased at Steam, we could not find She is in the catalog of the online service for keywords. In most posts, neither the developer nor the English-language name of the project is indicated. Edition "Belarus today"Claims that it is called" Glue Zelensky ", and the site Newsland - "The beating of Zelensky." But there are no mentioning games with such names either anywhere else.
Thus, there is no convincing evidence that Stallone posted a video about the game where Zelensky had to be beaten. This story is built on the only post story, which the actor allegedly placed on Instagram. But initially the video appeared in the pro-Kremlin Telegram channels, previously repeatedly caught in the distribution of fabricated photos and videos.
*Russian authorities They think Meta Platforms Inc., which owns social networks Instagram and Threads, an extremist organization, its activities and symbolism in Russia are prohibited.
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