{"id":206069,"date":"2022-02-28T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=206069"},"modified":"2022-02-28T06:42:16","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T06:42:16","slug":"fake-news-warfare-in-ukraine-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/02\/fake-news-warfare-in-ukraine-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake News Warfare in Ukraine Conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Plus Zelensky on the Frontlines?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_206071\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ukraine-president-Zelensky-on-the-Frontlines.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-206071\" class=\"wp-image-206071\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ukraine-president-Zelensky-on-the-Frontlines.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ukraine-president-Zelensky-on-the-Frontlines.webp 770w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ukraine-president-Zelensky-on-the-Frontlines-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ukraine-president-Zelensky-on-the-Frontlines-768x432.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-206071\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Images showing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky dressed in military uniform, December 6, 2021. Photo: India Today<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>27 Feb 2022 &#8211; <\/em>The ongoing geopolitical and military conflict situation between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Ukraine is being used for fake news production by Western press and social media platforms, as is becoming evident.<\/p>\n<p>Biased reports, publications of old photographs, and even simulations and video games serve as \u201csource\u201d for the mainstream media and social media accounts of great influence. With the publication of fake news, they are trying to show an \u201cindignation\u201d against war, something that was never seen against all the atrocities perpetrated or promoted by governments such as that of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of the conflict in Ukraine, one of the fake news that was dismantled hours after it was broadcast consists of images of bombings and the alleged activation of anti-aircraft defense systems in Ukrainian territory. It was revealed that the bombings were from scenes of a video game called ArmA 3.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\ude48 Pues no est\u00e1 el horno para bollos para que en el programa de Susana Grisso pongan im\u00e1genes de un videojuego como si fueran bombardeos reales.<br \/>Se trata del juego ArmA 3. Aqu\u00ed puedes ver el v\u00eddeo usado como si fuera real:<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SqqLi27yp4\" >https:\/\/t.co\/SqqLi27yp4<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ltLGcBtcpe\" >pic.twitter.com\/ltLGcBtcpe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Juli\u00e1n Mac\u00edas Tovar (@JulianMaciasT) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JulianMaciasT\/status\/1496912420601745413?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >February 24, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Photos, videos and stories abound in social media platforms and other digital platforms, seeking sustenance by appealing to values \u200b\u200bsuch as tenderness, patriotism, and courage. For this reason, images associated with fear, love and the fragility of children are being disseminated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orinocotribune.com\/western-media-fall-in-lockstep-for-neo-nazi-publicity-stunt-in-ukraine\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RELATED CONTENT: Western Media Fall in Lockstep for Neo-Nazi Publicity Stunt in Ukraine<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, some photographs of the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, dressed in a military uniform, were circulated to claim that he was in \u201cthe frontlines of battle in defense of his country.\u201d However, those photographs were revealed to have been published in early December last year.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">\u274c No, estas fotos del presidente ucraniano, Volod\u00edmir Zelenski, con uniforme militar no son actuales: circulan al menos desde 2021 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nQ3KscCw2j\" >https:\/\/t.co\/nQ3KscCw2j<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; MALDITO BULO (@malditobulo) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/malditobulo\/status\/1497139008173977621?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >February 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>War against truth <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ukraine has been at war for eight years, against the People\u2019s Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk in the Donbass region that had seceded from Ukraine after the 2014 coup. Many of the images of that conflict have been manipulated to affirm that all those have been happening since February 24, when Russia\u2019s special military operation began.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, a photo of Ukrainian boys and girls greeting Ukrainian soldiers was circulated as recent, but was later confirmed to be a photograph of an advertisement of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense that has been around for several years.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, photos and videos from other conflicts in other regions, including of wars carried out or promoted by the US in Syria, Libya and Palestine, have been presented as images from the current conflict in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">\u274c No, este v\u00eddeo de un lanzamiento de misiles no est\u00e1 grabado en Ucrania ni tiene relaci\u00f3n con la situaci\u00f3n actual: se grab\u00f3 en mayo de 2021 y es del conflicto entre Palestina e Israel <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UkraineFacts?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >#UkraineFacts<\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lkoGWfjOSc\" >https:\/\/t.co\/lkoGWfjOSc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; MALDITO BULO (@malditobulo) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/malditobulo\/status\/1497526908048842752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >February 26, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orinocotribune.com\/nato-countries-have-supplied-weapons-to-ukraine-report\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RELATED CONTENT: NATO Countries Have Supplied Weapons to Ukraine (Report)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another such incident was that of a video where a man can be seen crying while saying goodbye to his daughter and wife. The scene was used to dramatize the farewell of a supposedly Ukrainian family, when in reality it was about a Russian man of the Donbass bidding farewell to his family that was being evacuated to Russia at the start of the Ukrainian bombing of the region days before the Russian military moved in.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Zelensky on the frontlines?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A similar incident happened with the Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky who in a speech on February 25 announced his pledge to remain in Kiev. Soon after his speech, several images with Zelensky in military uniform went viral in social media platforms, claiming that he was at the frontlines of war. One of the images got more than 33,000 shares on Facebook in just a few hours.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/fact-check\/story\/did-ukraine-president-don-army-uniform-to-fight-against-russian-troops-1918333-2022-02-26\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">India Today<\/a> Anti Fake News War Room (AFWA) found the photos to be old and not related to the ongoing Ukraine-Russia conflict.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/orinocotribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2022-02-27_00-01.png.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-83627 entered lazyloaded aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/orinocotribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2022-02-27_00-01.png.webp\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 776px) 100vw, 776px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orinocotribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2022-02-27_00-01.png.webp 776w,https:\/\/orinocotribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2022-02-27_00-01-300x202.png.webp 300w,https:\/\/orinocotribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2022-02-27_00-01-768x517.png.webp 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"776\" height=\"522\" data-attachment-id=\"83627\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/orinocotribune.com\/fake-news-warfare-in-ukraine-conflict-zelensky-on-the-frontlines\/2022-02-27_00-01\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/orinocotribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2022-02-27_00-01.png\" data-orig-size=\"776,522\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2022-02-27_00-01\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/orinocotribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2022-02-27_00-01-300x202.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/orinocotribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2022-02-27_00-01.png\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/orinocotribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2022-02-27_00-01.png.webp 776w,https:\/\/orinocotribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2022-02-27_00-01-300x202.png.webp 300w,https:\/\/orinocotribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2022-02-27_00-01-768x517.png.webp 768w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(max-width: 776px) 100vw, 776px\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/orinocotribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2022-02-27_00-01.png.webp\" data-ll-status=\"loaded\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">With the help of a reverse image search, the Indian news outlet found the original image posted on Getty Images. According to the description on Getty Images, the image was from Zelensky\u2019s visit to the front-line positions of the Ukrainian military in Donbass on December 06, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"entered lazyloaded aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/akm-img-a-in.tosshub.com\/indiatoday\/images\/bodyeditor\/202202\/Pic_2__3__0-1200x968.jpeg?sJmDL9RB2Ow5SQzW16IfQ122xg2zuVGz\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/akm-img-a-in.tosshub.com\/indiatoday\/images\/bodyeditor\/202202\/Pic_2__3__0-1200x968.jpeg?sJmDL9RB2Ow5SQzW16IfQ122xg2zuVGz\" data-ll-status=\"loaded\" \/><\/p>\n<p>_________________________________________<\/p>\n<div class=\"m-a-box-title\">\n<p class=\"molongui-font-size-27-px\n\t        molongui-text-align-left             molongui-text-style-bold            molongui-text-case-none\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span class=\"molongui-font-size-27-px molongui-text-align-left\"> Jos\u00e9 Manuel Blanco Diaz &#8211; <\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Vice President of the Radio Miraflores Foundation |<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0RyZ1iVDGH?amp=1\" class=\"css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"link\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-focusable=\"true\"><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\" aria-hidden=\"true\">http:\/\/<\/span>radiomiraflores.net.ve<\/a><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"> | Presenter of <\/span>| UCV Social Communication | UCV announcer<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/redradiove.com\/asi-opera-la-guerra-de-fake-news-en-conflicto-rusia-ucrania\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RedRadioVE<\/a>) <em>by Jos\u00e9 Manuel Blanco D\u00edaz, with<\/em> Orinoco Tribune <em>content<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Translation: <\/em>Orinoco Tribune<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/orinocotribune.com\/fake-news-warfare-in-ukraine-conflict-zelensky-on-the-frontlines\/\" >Go to Original &#8211; orinocotribune.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>27 Feb 2022 &#8211; The ongoing geopolitical and military conflict situation between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Ukraine is being used for fake news production by Western press and social media platforms, as is becoming evident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":206071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[1138,1748,950,378,1855,234,278,1006,961,1365],"class_list":["post-206069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-fake-news","tag-fake-report","tag-invasion","tag-journalism","tag-mainstream-media-msm","tag-media","tag-russia","tag-social-media","tag-ukraine","tag-war-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}