{"id":11865,"date":"2023-01-23T11:43:45","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T11:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/2023\/01\/23\/the-ukrainian-media-massively-spread-the-fake-about-the-russian-offensive-from-three-directions-in-february-2023\/"},"modified":"2024-08-20T22:01:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T22:01:28","slug":"the-ukrainian-media-massively-spread-the-fake-about-the-russian-offensive-from-three-directions-in-february-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/2023\/01\/23\/the-ukrainian-media-massively-spread-the-fake-about-the-russian-offensive-from-three-directions-in-february-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ukrainian media massively spread the fake about the &#8220;Russian offensive from three directions&#8221; in February 2023;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This morning, some Ukrainian media outlets began to report that &#8220;a member of the negotiating group with Russia and MP Rustem Umerov said that Ukraine is preparing for a possible major offensive by the Russian army from three directions simultaneously in February 2023.&#8221; This was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/100003396797650\/posts\/pfbid0SHfpZZCeWwhgzxpvBAPNpZWZbZEn4Z1UHKDf2eoaMxTbdYqLSGrdDcTWT1nFHCCwl\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced by InfoLight.UA project manager Yuriy Goncharenko.<\/a><\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Once again, we have to refute disinformation spread by the Ukrainian media without checking the sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This time, FOCUS and Pryamyy TV channel have done it as of now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In short, Rustem Umerov did not say anything like that, the fake was spread using a classical technology. It is unfortunate that at the time of publication by the Ukrainian media, the denial had already been published several hours earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope that this is inattention rather than a deliberate spread of disinformation due to opposition to the government.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/podrobnosti.ua\/media\/ckeditor_uploads\/2023\/01\/21\/326544096_501083438808376_1888948316833546875_n.jpg\" alt=\"The Ukrainian media massively spread the fake about the &quot;Russian offensive from three directions&quot; in February 2023;\"\/><\/figure>\n\n<p>Since Rustem Umerov himself denied that he had said such a thing, and journalists noticed the spread of this fake as early as midnight on Russian telegram channels, <a href=\"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/2023\/01\/21\/cherhova-rosijska-dezinformatsiia-pro-velykyj-nastup-z-trokh-napriamkiv-u-liutomu-2023-roku-operatyvne-sprostuvannia-infolight-ua\/?fbclid=IwAR1HVpZJOEjiJZ6aKxx_R3kl2qX3F96ft2ohlOOVMFeFElLJp2sQrgg719I\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">InfoLight.UA<\/a> published a short study on why it is fake and how Russia managed to deceive some Ukrainian media.<\/p>\n\n<p>Update. Focus published a refutation. The screenshot shows that they posted the news before Umerov&#8217;s refutation appeared. But this &#8220;news&#8221; was also published by the website of the Fakty newspaper and Apostrophe.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/podrobnosti.ua\/media\/ckeditor_uploads\/2023\/01\/21\/325422333_1184964692392871_6751628116185283352_n.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/podrobnosti.ua\/2465586-ukransk-zm-masovo-poshirili-fejk-pro-nastup-ros-z-troh-naprjamkv-u-ljutomu-2023-roku.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, some Ukrainian media outlets began to report that &#8220;a member of the negotiating group with Russia and MP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_eb_data_table":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1284],"tags":[1346,1342],"class_list":["post-11865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-about-us","tag-fact-checking","tag-infohihiiena"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/rosjsk-okupanti-v-ukran.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11866,"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11865\/revisions\/11866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}