{"id":16984,"date":"2024-02-14T19:02:14","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T19:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/2024\/02\/14\/budanov-and-macron-s-assassination-is-a-large-scale-but-primitive-russian-fake-analysis-and-refutation\/"},"modified":"2024-08-20T21:44:45","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T21:44:45","slug":"budanov-and-macron-s-assassination-is-a-large-scale-but-primitive-russian-fake-analysis-and-refutation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/2024\/02\/14\/budanov-and-macron-s-assassination-is-a-large-scale-but-primitive-russian-fake-analysis-and-refutation\/","title":{"rendered":"Budanov and Macron&#8217;s &#8220;assassination&#8221; is a large-scale but primitive Russian fake: analysis and refutation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On February 14, the Russian segment of the Internet began to be full of reports of an alleged attempted assassination attempt on French President Emmanuel Macron. It was allegedly prepared by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the &#8220;operation&#8221; was supervised by Kyrylo Budanov, and the attempt was prevented by Valeriy Zaluzhnyi. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/\">The research and analysis group InfoLight.UA<\/a><\/strong> research and analysis group verified this information using artificial intelligence-based narrative tracking systems.<\/p>\n\n<p>Thus, in most publications from February 14, the only source of this &#8220;information&#8221; is a very poor quality video from a TV set. The video is so bad that it&#8217;s technically impossible to make sure it&#8217;s not a duplicate.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"352\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 640 \/ 352;\" width=\"640\" controls=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/2222.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n<p>We would like to point out that the video has Russian subtitles that are wider than the TV in the frame. But according to Russian propaganda, the video was posted by a user of the X network with the nickname @Jose_FERNANDE8. And allegedly this is a story on French television, France 24.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"937\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/screenshot-2024-02-14-201418-937x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16095\" srcset=\"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/screenshot-2024-02-14-201418-937x1024.png 937w, https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/screenshot-2024-02-14-201418-600x656.png 600w, https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/screenshot-2024-02-14-201418-915x1000.png 915w, https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/screenshot-2024-02-14-201418-768x839.png 768w, https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/screenshot-2024-02-14-201418-275x300.png 275w, https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/screenshot-2024-02-14-201418-860x940.png 860w, https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/screenshot-2024-02-14-201418.png 1068w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 937px) 100vw, 937px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<p>There is such a user, but there is no story on television. However, does this concern the Russians, in particular, the so-called Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Medvedev, who is always inspired by delusions.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"789\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/screenshot-2024-02-14-205515-789x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16097\" srcset=\"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/screenshot-2024-02-14-205515-789x1024.png 789w, https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/screenshot-2024-02-14-205515-600x779.png 600w, https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/screenshot-2024-02-14-205515-770x1000.png 770w, https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/screenshot-2024-02-14-205515-768x997.png 768w, https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/screenshot-2024-02-14-205515-231x300.png 231w, https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/screenshot-2024-02-14-205515-860x1116.png 860w, https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/screenshot-2024-02-14-205515.png 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 789px) 100vw, 789px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<p>However, the Russian captions on the video from allegedly France are not the only gap in this fake. In fact, the screenshots mentioned in the video appeared on Telegram on February 12.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"932\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/photo_2024-02-14_20-31-36-932x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16099\" srcset=\"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/photo_2024-02-14_20-31-36-932x1024.jpg 932w, https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/photo_2024-02-14_20-31-36-600x659.jpg 600w, https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/photo_2024-02-14_20-31-36-910x1000.jpg 910w, https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/photo_2024-02-14_20-31-36-768x844.jpg 768w, https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/photo_2024-02-14_20-31-36-273x300.jpg 273w, https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/photo_2024-02-14_20-31-36-860x945.jpg 860w, https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/photo_2024-02-14_20-31-36.jpg 1165w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 932px) 100vw, 932px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<p>Anyone who enjoys studying the unlikely &#8220;hellfire&#8221; can find something for themselves here. Everyone in Ukraine understands that even for Surzhik it is too much).<\/p>\n\n<p>We publish a timeline of this fake and continue to monitor its development.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/screenshot-2024-02-14-204000-1024x270.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16101\" srcset=\"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/screenshot-2024-02-14-204000-1024x270.png 1024w, https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/screenshot-2024-02-14-204000-600x158.png 600w, https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/screenshot-2024-02-14-204000-1000x264.png 1000w, https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/screenshot-2024-02-14-204000-1500x396.png 1500w, https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/screenshot-2024-02-14-204000-768x203.png 768w, https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/screenshot-2024-02-14-204000-1536x406.png 1536w, https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/screenshot-2024-02-14-204000-2048x541.png 2048w, https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/screenshot-2024-02-14-204000-300x79.png 300w, https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/screenshot-2024-02-14-204000-860x227.png 860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 14, the Russian segment of the Internet began to be full of reports of an alleged attempted assassination [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16090,"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":[1356,1264,1941],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defacto","category-important","category-top-en"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/default_0.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16984","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=16984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16985,"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16984\/revisions\/16985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}