In March 2025, the news dispersed on the Web that two North European television channels at once mixed in the credits, which country was headed by Vladimir Putin. We decided to check the reliability of these publications.
They wrote about the alleged oversight of colleagues from the Danish and Swedish television Russia Today, "Moscow Komsomolets" Lenta.ru, URA.RU, Life.ru and other Russian media. Social networks (""VKontakte","Classmates" X, Threads) and the platform blog ("Zen","Picabu") They joked that this is a sign and that Danish and Swedish journalists obviously know something. We talked about incidents and popular Telegram channels, for example, “Newsach / Dv"(221,000 views at the time of writing of the analysis),"Not Morgenstern"(112 000) and"The first folk | News"(102 000). Most of the posts contain screenshots or photos of screens with the broadcast of the performance of Vladimir Putin, where he is signed as the US President. Some publications indicate that errors made the Swedish TV channel SVT and Danish TV 2 News.
The main thing than the publications about the alleged errors in the credits differ from many Fake Video and screenshots of news stories that "Checked" already Disassembled Previously, this is a variety of evidence. Usually, when such evidence is falsified, the same video or the same screenshot spreads through social networks and blogs. In this case, users divided different Pictures screens.
Swedish TV channel SVT
The earliest publication about the error of Swedish journalists, which “verified” was found, - fast User @werndlstadter on the social network X. March 13 at 23:48 Moscow time, he shared a photo that captures the TV screen with the Ether of the Swedish television channel SVT2. Judging by the inscriptions on the screen, at that moment the channel broadcast a news program called Aktuellt.
Such a television program on SVT really comes out. The channel website posts the recordings of the broadcasts, in particular from March 13, when the screenshot began to diverge. Release It has begun with news about negotiations on a possible ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine. The plot shows the personnel of Trump's performances, and followed by a passage from the broadcast of the joint press conferences Putin and President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, held on the same day. At the mark 02:18 Near the name of the Russian president for a few seconds, a titer really appears, where he is called the US President.
Danish television channel TV 2
Pictures and screenshots proving another oversight became viral on the same day. Many media who wrote this embarrassment of journalists refer to fast In X - this time from the user @mortenstweet, who posted the photo at 21:11 Moscow time.
In the upper left corner of the screen, the logo of the Danish television channel TV2 News is really shown. At the time of shooting on the air, a fragment was shown meetings With the participation of Putin in one of the points of the Kursk group, which took place on March 12. The broadcast of the broadcast on the screen is not visible, but on March 13, on the website of the channel, it was published article With a detailed analysis of this event and the unusual appearance of Putin. At that meeting, the politician did not appear in the usual suit, but in military uniform, which attracted the attention of journalists.
Unlike its Swedish colleagues, TV 2 does not post the records of its broadcasts into open access, they can only be viewed by subscription. "Verified" turned for help to factor from the Danish project Tjekdet, and those, having studied the archival broadcasts of the TV channel for March 13, confirmed that in the news release at 19:00 a mistake in the credits was really made and Putin was called the US president.
Such mistakes do not happen so rarely, especially when it comes to live broadcast. Often the credits, announcements of the following programs, a running line with urgent news and other design elements are not applied in advance, during installation, but directly during the program, therefore human errors are not excluded. It is amazing unless the fact that the two channels broadcasting in different countries almost simultaneously made the same mistake.
Sometimes similar errors become speculation objects. For example, in February 2022, the American television channel WTAE-TV Pittsburgh showed During the plot of the pedophile, the announcement of the performance of the ex-president of the United States Joe Biden with his photograph, and after almost two years some Internet users began to claim that the journalists allegedly mixed up the pictures and showed a portrait of a politician instead of a photo of the criminal. In 2011, Fox News journalists in credits Mixed The names of the then US President Barack Obama and terrorist Usama Ben Laden, saying that Obama Ben Laden was dead. After 14 years, when the editors of CNN made the same mistake, their colleagues with Fox News Hurryed The first to throw a stone at them.
Thus, the Swedish and Danish television channels really showed a titer where Vladimir Putin was called the US president, but such blunders are nothing more than a mistake of the employees of these media.
Photo on the cover: social networks
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