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putin's criminal regime continues to spend tens of millions of dollars a month just to create and spread new fakes, fresh lies around the world. All this is done against the background of the total decline of the economy and the degradation of social policy. But the kremlin is not interested in the critical social problems of its own citizens. And they are interested in the following...

Fake: The 2024 Olympics led to an increase in street theft in Paris
"Fake Factory" reports that on average, about 9,000 robberies take place in the French capital every day. As usual, the russians used the logos of well-known world media (namely AFP and RFI) to give this "news" authority. But conscientious journalists and Internet users quickly exposed this inept fake. In fact, there is no material on the AFP or RFI site, and the "screenshot from the French site" has been altered with a photo editor. When using Google Lens, you can see that the image has been altered: both the AFP logo and the headline about the increase in thefts and the numbers above the columns have been added to the original image. In addition, there was no article on the RFI website in July of this year about the increase in theft in Paris, but there is an article about the fact that the police arrested a russian in connection with the plan to "destabilize" the Olympic Games in Paris.
Read about other fakes about the Olympics here.
Fake: radioactive elements were released into the air in Chornobyl
The story is as old as the world that Ukraine will create a "dirty bomb" that threatens russia and all of Europe. But while the russians did not find any even small evidence of a "dirty bomb", they tried to scare the Europeans with the "accident at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant". The primary source of this news was the russian Telegram channel "Sheikh Tamir", which previously had repeatedly spread russian disinformation. Of course, this information was denied at the station itself, as well as at the IAEA, which monitors the situation at all Ukrainian nuclear power plants around the clock. In 2023, let's recall, russia constantly created fakes that the Ukrainians were shelling their own (temporarily occupied by the russians nuclear power plant in the city of Energodar), which caused serious risks for a nuclear disaster. In fact, russian terrorists still control this one of the largest nuclear facilities in Europe, namely, they place military equipment there, mine individual blocks and approaches to the plant, shell the territories controlled by Ukraine (the cities of Nikopol and Marganets are very close to Energodar).
Fake: President cheese released packages with "Zelenskyi is high"
This is not the first time russians have created such shameful disinformation. A video of packages of President cheese with the faces of various presidents allegedly being sold in russia is circulating online. Among them are "Macron with mold", "Zelenskyi is high", "Biden with dementia" and "Putin is adequate". It is interesting that even the audience of pro-russian channels did not believe in the veracity of this news - in the comments, readers accused the bloggers who spread it of publishing primitive fakes.
Photo fake: Ukrainian military "poses with a flag with a swastika"
At once, several programs for analyzing the authenticity of images indicate that the photo has been altered or generated by a computer program. In addition, the original source of the photo is the English-language Telegram channel, which positions itself as pro-Ukrainian, but writes in a positive way about the "flourishing of right-wing radical movements in Ukraine." Ukraine also bans the promotion of symbols of totalitarian regimes. Criminal and administrative liability is provided for the use of such symbols.
Thanks to the service Forensically, it was possible to determine that the four servicemen in the photo and the background of the image are not parts of the same picture. But the most significant result of the analysis was that the flag of Ukraine with the swastika is fake. The place on which the swastika is depicted turned out to be much lighter than the main canvas. This shows that the image of the swastika was simply added to the Ukrainian flag using a photo editor.
Fake: The Pentagon demands that Ukraine inspect all its American weapons
The russian "Fake Factory" launched a video on its channels that the Pentagon is again demanding from Ukraine detailed information about each unit of American weapons that was transferred to the Armed Forces. Apparently, there are only 20 days to prepare the document in Ukraine. The video even "quotes" the author of The Wall Street Journal, Warren Strobel, who allegedly considers this demand to be related to the domestic political situation in the United States. The video also suggests that American weapons from Ukraine could end up on the black market and in the hands of terrorists, so the Pentagon wants to conduct an audit as soon as possible.
However, this story is completely fictional. The video was not published either on the website of The Wall Street Journal or on social networks. There is no such news on the website of the US Ministry of Defense. Warren Strobel is active at X, but he hasn't published this kind of news either — instead, the journalist often shares information exposing russian propaganda and war crimes, as well as the detention of independent journalists in russia.
Based on the materials of Stopfake.org