It’s starting with Ukraine, but coming soon to U.S. politics.
in which protesters donned body-bags, then mixed in genuine audio of a real news report on Ukraine, to create an incorrect report with Western anchors seemingly unaware of the moving “dead” crisis actors in the background.Russian Twitter users are also generating fake media and attributing those images to Ukrainians. The propagandists do so by altering footage, claiming that pro-Ukrainian users are disseminating that footage, and then debunking the altered images and videos.
pushing misinformation in support of the Russian invasion . ASB News has featured several fact-checks, like the one below, showing that the Russian-identifying Z was added to older footage.However, these fact-checks do not point to any genuine dissemination or use of the altered image. Indeed, a reverse image search shows the altered image has appeared only in the context of the false fact-check.
of the video files in these supposed fact-checks also suggests that the pro-Ukrainian fakes were created by the Russian fact-checkers themselves.This novel method is worrisome. It may undermine the ability of Russians to comprehend the actions of their government in Ukraine.suggest that roughly 75 percent of Russians who claim to support the war trust official Russian sources, though of course reliable polling is difficult to achieve in Russia.
a 2015 video of rocket fire in Ukraine or Belarus, paired with text that “650 Rockets being fired into Israel from Gaza” and asked if Omar would condemn it.that the video was used merely “to underscore what hundreds of rockets would look like,” though fact-checkers pointed out that the “ordered and rhythmic” artillery barrage was unlike those in Israel/Gaza and thus “the video fails as a representation.
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