Germany uncovers pro-Russia disinformation campaign on X – Report
DIGITAL forensic experts in Germany have uncovered a vast, pro-Russia disinformation campaign against the government using thousands of fake accounts on X.
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FACT CHECK: No, Vladimir Putin Did Not Declare Alaska Sale Illegal | Check Your Fact
The letter does not state anything about Alaska
FACT CHECK: No, NATO Did Not Invade Libya | Check Your Fact
NATO did not invade Libya but enforced a no-fly zone. While NATO did not
kill Gaddafi, it did hit his convoy with airstrikes, which led to Libyan
rebels finding and killing him'
FAKE: In 2023, Ukraine paid over $1.2 billion to British PR companies to create fakes about the successes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Neither BBC News nor Bellingcat published this information. The video was edited using footage available in the public domain, and there are errors in the video's text.
FACT CHECK: No, Biden Is Not Sending U.S. Troops To Fight Russia
A White House spokesperson said the claim is false in an email to Check Your Fact.
FACT CHECK: No, Video Of Man Dancing In Red Outfit Is Not Volodymyr Zelenskyy | Check Your Fact
The video has been digitally altered to put Zelenskyy's face on someone
else's body.
FACT CHECK: Facebook Post Makes False Claim About Putin, ‘Illegal Chinese Immigrants’ | Check Your Fact
The video, originally posted on Douyin on Dec. 29, shows travelers going
through customs at a Russian airport ahead of New Year's
FACT CHECK: Post Claims To Show Letter From Vladimir Putin | Check Your Fact
There is no evidence Putin released or wrote this letter
Fact Check: Video doesn’t show migrants fleeing Russia after Putin citizenship offer | Reuters
Posts on social media shared the video suggesting migrants were fleeing so as not to be sent to the warfront. A post on social media platform X reads, "Putin threatened to send all illegal Chinese immigrants to the front lines in Ukraine. Airports saw a sudden rush of flights back to China." Screenshots from the video were also shared on Facebook.
The video, however, can be traced back to at least Dec. 30, 2023, when it was posted on Douyin, the Chinese counterpart of TikTok, as showing people traveling from Russia for New Year. The same user says in the description of a different video of the same location that it shows Heihe river port in China.
Fact Check: German magazine Titanic ‘s cover on celebrating Christmas in Ukraine is fake | Reuters
German satirical magazine Titanic did not publish a Christmas-themed cover depicting the severed legs of four Ukrainian soldiers hanging over a fireplace, and an image of this circulating online is fake, the editor-in-chief of the publication said to Reuters. [...]
VERDICT: False. No such cover was published by German satirical magazine Titanic.