{"id":186841,"date":"2024-04-17T12:20:09","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T10:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/2024\/04\/17\/macrons-words-and-crocus-terrorist-attack-boost-disinformation-about-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2024-04-17T12:20:57","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T10:20:57","slug":"macrons-words-and-crocus-terrorist-attack-boost-disinformation-about-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/2024\/04\/17\/macrons-words-and-crocus-terrorist-attack-boost-disinformation-about-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron\u2019s words and Crocus\u2019 terrorist attack boost disinformation about Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Macron\u2019s statements about the possibility of sending european troops in Ukraine prompted waves of disinformation against him and about escalation<\/h2>\n\n

After the French President Emmanuel Macron openly discussed the possibility of sending European\u00a0troops to Ukraine to help Kyiv win the war against Russia, first at the\u00a0end of February and then again in mid-March, disinformation intensified two already existing narratives* targeting respectively the topic of a\u00a0possible escalation – this narrative has been pushed\u00a0by Russian officials as well – and Macron himself.<\/p>\n\n

Escalation\u00a0<\/strong>– In France a link circulated to a website, allegedly from the French Ministry of the Armed Forces, calling on 200,000 people to \u201csign up\u201d for Ukraine; in Poland false news were circulated thatthe country is going to war against Russia and it is ready to send troops in Ukraine, and that Poland has given competences to the European Union to decide on military conscription; in Hungary it was falsely claimed\u00a0that a German general said they should expect war with Russia within 5 years; in Estonia\u00a0it has been claimed that French troops are already moving toward Ukraine; in Spain and Portugal false news circulated\u00a0about Portugal summoning reservists, under penalty of a fine of 500 euros if they do not go to fight in the war in Ukraine, and so on.<\/p>\n\n

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Disinformation about the attack at the Crocus City Hall and other anti Ukrainian narratives<\/h2>\n\n

The terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall, a concert hall near Moscow, on March 22, triggered\u00a0disinformation across Europe. A dedicated EDMO investigation showed how false stories followed\u00a0the Kremlin\u2019s efforts to blame Ukraine for the massacre claimed by ISIS. From the data collected for\u00a0this brief, it emerges that some of those stories were among the most viral detected falsehoods in the EU in March.<\/p>\n\n

Amid made-up content that alleged connections of the assaulters\u00a0with Ukraine, very significant was an artificially generated\u00a0deepfake \u2013 aired a few hours after the assault by Russian television channel\u00a0NTV and then circulated on social media \u2013 of Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine\u2019s National Security and Defense Council,\u00a0praising the mass shooting.<\/p>\n\n

Other relevant false stories targeting Ukraine in March alleged that Ukrainian ammunition, refugees and goods exports endanger EU citizens, that men subject to military service\u00a0are fleeing\u00a0the invaded country, that the war is staged, and even that the Ukrainians welcome Russian soldiers when they arrive.<\/p>\n\n

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Read the full brief here<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Monthly brief no. 34 \u2013 EDMO fact-checking network<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":186839,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4907],"tags":[4957,4890],"class_list":["post-186841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insights","tag-disinformation-en-2","tag-edmo-en"],"acf":{"share_this_post_to_edmo_website":false,"type_of_post":false,"options_for_news_post":{"":""},"options_for_event_post":{"event_start_date":null,"event_end_date":null,"event_location":"","event_programme":""},"options_for_report_post":{"post_author":"","report_type":false,"report_pdf_link":""},"options_for_investigation_post":{"post_author":""},"affiliation":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186842,"href":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186841\/revisions\/186842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}