CTechnical jewelryLouis Vuitton bags, Gucci paths, private planes – Olina Zelinska, and the first lady in Ukraine, enjoy a good life and use external aid money to finance them. Or so the enemies of Ukraine will believe. Once Western governments began sending weapons and money to Ukraine, following the invasion of Russia in February 2022, Russians and ABSOLATISTS began paying veterinary claims about the extent of corruption in the country. The concentration of this Mrs. Zellinska and her husband, President Voludimir Zelinski, is often the focus of these lies. In 2023, for example, the Kremlin published the imagination that the first couple of Ukraine bought the German villa formerly owned by Joseph Jubelles, the head of advertising for the Nazis. This comfortably served the wrong Kremlin that Mr. Zelinski is a Nazi sympathy (it does not matter that he is a Jew).
The claim was easy enough to attract people’s attention while also spoke to legitimate concerns about the history of corruption in Ukraine and the aid money it wasted. Big news and accounts on X and Tiktok have amplified the story, making it credible. Maybe you didn’t see the story, but millions of people did so.
To understand how this misinformation spread, Darren Linfelle and Patrick Warren, researchers at Clemerson University at South Carolina, followed. The successful online misinformation campaign includes three stages. The first is “mode”, or the initial publishing of lying. Then comes the “layers”, where the lie spreads between the online accounts and the news sites, which blocks its origin. The final stage is “integration”: when reliable sources, such as real news sites and social media accounts. Here is how everything happened in the story of Olina Zelinska.
In September, a woman claiming to be a Cartier trainee in New York shared her experience in the service of Mrs. Zellinska – then she was later launched – on her Instagram account.
She even got a receipt from Cartier to prove her claim. But the doctorate was done. Before BBC and Open onlineLater, determine the woman who uses the face recognition program. Away from being a Cartier employee in New York, she may have been a beauty expert in St. Petersburg. In any case, Mrs. Zelenska was in Canada in the history included in the receipt.
By the time when the story was gaining strength, the Instagram account for women from the year to the private sector turned. But the unknown YouTube account has already downloaded her story. This video was the only post.
At first glance, Capital weekly Any other news page seems to cover American policy and global affairs. Her stories tend to call for corruption in Ukraine. As with the Cartier scandal, their evidence comes from YouTube videos.
But a closer look reveals its true nature. The researchers have determined that the website had stolen and republished thousands of articles and headlines from the prevailing Western outlets. Then it was a pivotal use of the artificial bloc (Amnesty International) Models to produce stories. Capital weekly It appears to be owned by John Mark Dogan, a former American police officer who defected to Russia in 2016 and is now working as a supporter of Russia.
The site is one of many fake, Amnesty International-Genealized news sites that pump stories like this. It provides a case study in ways in which new technology is used to help bad actors build and build false accounts faster than ever, and through multiple platforms.
It is mentioned every hour of Zelenska-Cartier
A story on X (previously Twitter)
The story appears in the Russian media.
It was re -published by the Russian Embassy of the United Kingdom
“Cartier trainee” video
It was published on YouTube
The story appears
In the weekly capital
The story appears on
Netafrique.ne
Source: Darine Linfelle and Patrick Warren, S.
It is mentioned every hour of Zelenska-Cartier
A story on X (previously Twitter)
1 The video “Cartier Internet” was posted on YouTube
2 The story appears on Netafrique.ne
3 The story appears in DC Weekly
4 The story appears in the Russian media. Recycled
By the Russian embassy in the United Kingdom
Source: Darine Linfelle and Patrick Warren, S.
It is mentioned every hour of Zelenska-Cartier
A story on X (previously Twitter)
The story appears in the Russian media.
It was re -published by the Russian Embassy of the United Kingdom
“Cartier trainee” video
It was published on YouTube
The story appears
In the weekly capital
The story appears on
Netafrique.ne
Source: Darine Linfelle and Patrick Warren, S.
Once the layers are completed, the last step is to spread misleading information on a large scale. Researchers estimate that the lie about the shopping spray from Mrs. Zellinska has been shared in English at least 20,000 times on X. None of this happened by chance. The first social media accounts “seeds” were strategically published, and then published “Spreader” accounts through various social networks.
One of the seeds was an account calling himself “Martin”, who used a picture of Ryan Gosling in the role of Kane from the movie “Barbie” as a profile image. Martin woke up showing many signs of pregnancy to be a plant. The account started only to publish the week on October 3, 2023, and all of nearly 300 followers were empty, and shell accounts with no photos or details of the account.
Martin and other accounts, such as “Russian Trols” (which has been banned since x) awakened to share links to the story in Nation In responses to the positions of politicians and influential people with right -wing tendencies.
In the end, the rumors of Zelenska-Cartier became old news. Some of those who saw the story may have watched the different articles that you describe, but most likely did not. Amnesty International Is it easy to create misleading information in the form of photos, videos and text (see our story MisleadingAnd published it through fake web sites, such as Capital weeklyAnd social media accounts. Campaign like this will become increasingly more sophisticated and more common.■
