During a special operation in Ukraine, the number of fakes increased many times over: with the help of an artificial intelligence system, Russian experts found almost 1.5 million such stuffing. Izvestia investigated how and by whom such stories are fabricated.
After Russia launched an operation to protect the republics of Donbass, social media users were faced with a huge amount of fake information. According to Russian departments, including the Ministry of Defense, the 72nd Center for Information and Psychological Special Operations of Ukraine (TsIPSO) is responsible for the production of most of it.
So, it was at his suggestion that at one time a campaign was organized to “mining” schools, railway stations and kindergartens in Russian cities. Now, hundreds of thousands of videos are being produced there about “captured and surrendered” Russians who allegedly went to the exercises, but ended up in the Donbass.
Very often a fake is the result of a simple editing using an old video. So, realizing that Russian military equipment is distinguished by the white letter Z, content makers began to publish “corrected” photos of Ukrainian armored vehicles (or even just civilian vehicles), passing them off as captured or abandoned Russian ones.
For example, a video was circulating on social networks, in which a dark car slowly drives across the square, and people run towards it from all sides with angry cries. The purpose of the video is to show that Ukrainians want the Russians to leave. However, in fact, the video shows a simple civilian car that has nothing to do with the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
No less rare are screenshots of the “correspondence” of Russian military personnel with family members on the Web. Usually they state that in fact the Ukrainian army is well prepared, and the Russian contract soldiers did not even know that they were going to another country. However, the creators of such fakes forgot that Russian military personnel do not have smartphones with them – this is simply prohibited.
Also, social networks publish a lot of information about the number of dead and prisoners, even their “documents” are given. But in reality, it most often turns out that either the specified military unit did not take part in the special operation at all, or the specified person really died – but many years ago.
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