In mid-February 2025, the Russian media and Telegram channels reported a tough remark of Caroline Litt against the Chancellor of Germany Olaf Sholts. We checked the authenticity of this quote.
According to the publications, the official representative of the US President Donald Trump Caroline Lithvt sharply reacted to the speech of the Chancellor of Germany Olaf Sholtsa, uttered during the Munich Security Conference. In response to his words that Germany will not support the world imposed on Ukraine, Livitt allegedly wrote: “Bundescancal, choose the words more carefully. The only place that Germany deserves in these negotiations is the bench of the defendants. ” Some publications showed the screenshot of Litvt's post on Instagram.
This was reported by large Russian mediaRT, "Vedomosti","Komsomolskaya Truth","Arguments and facts","Russian newspaper" Lenta.ru, TV channel "Star"), As well as Telegram channels"Uncle Glory"(184,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Open Ukraine"(179 000),"Ostashko! Important"(138 000),"Bankst"(134,000),"Washington Regional Committee"(133,000) and others.
February 14–16 in Munich passed International Security Conference, which experts called historical. USA represented by Vice President Jay Di Wans They made it clearWhat is radically changing politics regarding Europe and the previous guarantees of security by the countries of the Old World can no longer be counted. In turn, the leaders of European countries criticized Washington’s attempts to resolve the conflict in Ukraine without the participation of the country itself, as well as European powers. German Chancellor Olaf Sholts declaredthat does not support the "world imposed by Ukraine", and criticized Vance for the "intervention of strangers" in European democracy.
Judging by the publications on the website of the US president and in authoritative sources, the official reaction of the White House to the words of Sholtsa was. Including “verified” did not find any information about the rigid statement by Caroline Litt, while it would undoubtedly cause a diplomatic scandal.
The viral screenshot, which is distributed by Russian-language resources along with the statement of Livitt, allegedly captured Storiz in its Instagram account @karolineleavitt. At the time of writing, this story is not there (they are stored 24 hours).
However, the following circumstances are noteworthy. Over the network (both in its Russian -speaking segment, and beyond) The same screenshot is distributed, despite the fact that Litvt has almost 750,000 Instagram subscribers, and at least some of them were supposed to fix this emotional publication at different times. It is impossible to explain this by the fact that Storiz was immediately removed, it is impossible - the timer in the screenshot indicates that at least 13 hours passed.
It is also not very clear why Livitt placed her public statement in Storiz. This format is more convenient for short videos or personal photos, and not for appeals to the leaders of the countries, and even in the form of a commentary on the screenshot. Moreover, after 24 hours, the appeal will cease to be accessible to the audience. But the screenshots of supposedly real storiz are actively Used To prove the authenticity of the invented news, because then we can say that after the expiration of the period the publication disappeared.
Moreover, the publications of the media and Telegram channels say that Livitt allegedly responded to Scholyts’s performance at the Munich Security Conference, which took place on February 15. At the same time, a screenshot of news of February 13 was used in the story of the press secretary of the White House, when the Chancellor of Germany commented on a telephone conversation between Trump and Putin.
According to TGSTAT, the first to the news of the statement Livitt, together with the screenshot, was distributed by the pro-Russian Telegram channel "Before everyone else. Well, almost. Special operation"February 15 at 14:02 Moscow time. This channel repeatedly mentioned In the analysis of "tested" as the primary source of fakes.
Thus, direct and indirect evidence suggests that we have a fake screenshot and Livitt did not allow such attacks to Sholts.
Photo on the cover: Wikimedia Commons.
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