In early March 2025, a fragment of a television broadcast spread in the Russian -language segment of social networks, in which the journalist allegedly made an insulting comment regarding the President of Ukraine. We checked the authenticity of this video.
The 22-second video, according to bloggers, is an excerpt from the news release on the BBC British channel. The correspondent comments on the negotiations of Zelensky with Trump in the White House. After that, the camera switches to the leading in the studio, but against the background you can hear the words of the same reporter: “Have you finished? Fine. I met a meme that says that this is the second time when the US president fucked someone in the oval office. ” Behind the scenes is heard laughter. It is assumed that the freelance situation happened due to the microphone that was not turned off on time.
February 28, 2025 in the oval office of the White House took place meeting US President Donald Trump and President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky. After communicating with the press, negotiations and signing an agreement on the joint development of Ukrainian minerals were planned, but the answers to journalists' questions have grown into Switch With the participation of the heads of both states and the vice-president of the United States, Jay Di Wans, after which Zelensky left the White House ahead of schedule.
The meeting caused a great resonance in the media and social networks. In the evening of the same day, the Telegram channel "Digital Army of Russia" posted video With the release of Zelensky from the White House, accompanying him with a quote “During all this time in the oval cabinet, this did not happen in the presence of cameras - the correspondent of Sky News” and with his comment: “We understand that the last time there was so fucked only Monica Levinsky.” Although in the video itself the quote given by the blogger cannot be heard, his own remark is obviously connected with scandal The mid-1990s, when it turned out that US President Bill Clinton cheated on his wife with a white house of the White House Monika Levinsky. Despite the numerous jokes On this topic, sex, on wordsLevinsky, they did not engage in the oval office itself, but in other rooms.
A person who can be seen on a viral video - James Waterhouse. He really works as a BBC correspondent, during a full -scale war Lights events In Ukraine. Judging by Personal page Waterhouse on Instagram, Ukraine, Ukrainians and Zelensky, he treats with respect and sympathy, but Trump's policy against this country is a journalist repeatedlyCritical. Therefore, the quote attributed to him in the viral video looks at least strange.
Distributed by Telegram channels Video-Fragment reporting BBC News about the meeting of two presidents in the White House, it is available on the YouTube channel of the media corporation from February 28. However, in the original plot there is no sailor voice of Waterhouse, telling a joke about Trump and Zelensky. No one interrupts the TV presenter.
After the shots are supposedly with the joke of the BBC correspondent spread V English -language social networksWaterhouse himself reacted to the video. March 6 on his page in the X journalist reportedthat the video was faked with the help of artificial intelligence (AI), and shared a link to the original report on YouTube. Similar opinion expressed And Shayan Sardarizade from BBC Verify. The factor from the AFP agency appealed to the press service of the British television and radio company, and they They answeredthat the viral video is fake. Our colleagues from the project Lead Stories confirmed this statement by analyzing the video using the AI Contient recognition service HIVE MODERATION. It turned out that a fragment of the recording, where the joke about Trump and Zelensky sounds, is generated by a neural network with a probability of 95.7%.
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I came to a similar conclusion and Hani Farid, chief researcher at Getreal Labs, specializing in the fight against AI threats. Expert, at the request of factor from AFP Analyzed Record using two more programs.
The earliest publication of the viral video found "verified" was posted in the Telegram channel "Cat Kostyan"March 4 at 20:07 Moscow time, that is, four days after the meeting of Zelensky and Trump. This channel repeatedlyFacing In the analysis of "tested" as the primary source of misinformation. Only after the Kostyan cat post, foreign language users of social networks began to share the video.
Thus, a viral video is an edited fragment of a BBC report, into which, using AI, they added an insulting joke against Vladimir Zelensky.
