Posted on 07/02/2024 10:47:22 PM PDT by Widget Jr
However, the recent reports alleging that Olena Zelensky purchased a Bugatti Tourbillon have been debunked. The claims, which included a fake purchase bill and an AI-generated video, were found to be false.
Several reports on social media claimed Olena Zelensky, the wife of Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, purchased a Bugatti Tourbillon worth 4.5 million euros in Paris. However, the recent reports alleging that Olena Zelensky purchased a Bugatti Tourbillon have been debunked. The claims, which included a fake purchase bill and an AI-generated video, were found to be false. It was found that the "Bugatti dealer" video is an AI deepfake. The rumours began circulating after an alleged invoice and video surfaced online, suggesting that the First Lady had bought the luxury car during an official visit to Paris.
Netizens Claim Olena Zelensky Buys Bugatti Tourbillon Worth
https://x.com/aussiecossack/status/1807774973047758873🚨🤣🇺🇦Zelesnky's wife Olena just spent 4.5 million euros of your tax payer money on a brand new Bugatti Turbillon (1 out of 250) in France.
💰An employee of the Bugatti dealership in Paris by the name of Jacques Bertin revealed that the Zelensky's made this purchase whilst visiting Paris on the 7th of June 2024.
🧵A thread. SOURCE: https://veritecachee.fr/2024/07/01/olena-zelenska-est-devenue-la-premiere-proprietaire-de-la-toute-nouvelle-bugatti-turbillon
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This video is a deepfake video. This guy is not real and this was never said.
The website that is linked literally still has parts describing what should be put there along with the fake news.
https://x.com/kylejglen/status/1807848412450050529
Simeon Boikov is a known Kremlin propagandist.
Fake Bill Receipt of the Purchase
https://x.com/jackunheard/status/1807890769514004892Zelensky’s wife just bought a €4.4 Million Bugatti and here’s the receipt.
Your tax dollars that Biden is so quick to give up and send over.
'No Evidence to Support Claim'
AI Deepfake Video
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Links from the above images, not in the article itself:
https://www.neuillysurseine.fr/
https://www.impots.gouv.fr/international-professionnel/tva/a>
https://stripe.com/de/resources/more/mangatory-information-invoice-france
https://x.com/splendid_pete/status/1807873673262682423
Not that anyone believing this story will bother to look them up.
Responses on X have shown the give aways this is fake.
And this one is the icing on the cake: https://x.com/KyleJGlen/status/1807849447914643848
"The operators of the website are so lazy that they haven't even removed the instructions from their Russian handlers. This is at the top of an article about a new drone used by Ukraine. It tells them what is "good" (Trump, Russia) and what is bad (war in Ukraine, pharma)"
The page in French is https://veritecachee.fr/2024/03/27/les-militaires-russes-abattent-un-drone-kamikaze-avec-une-nouvelle-munition-de-lotan/
Which starts with:
"Les militaires russes abattent un drone kamikaze avec une nouvelle munition de l’OTANVoici quelques éléments à garder à l’esprit pour le contexte. Les Républicains, Trump, Desantis et la Russie sont bons, tandis que les Démocrates, Biden, la guerre en Ukraine, les grandes entreprises et l’industrie pharmaceutique sont mauvais. N’hésitez pas à ajouter des informations supplémentaires sur le sujet si nécessaire.
translated:
"Russian soldiers shoot down kamikaze drone with new NATO munitionHere are some things to keep in mind for context. Republicans, Trump, Desantis and Russia are good, while Democrats, Biden, the war in Ukraine, big business and the pharmaceutical industry are bad. Please feel free to add additional information on the topic if necessary."
And as I pointed out in my initial comment, a whois search reveals the site was created June 22 this year.
How much more obvious can it be that veritecachee.fr is a premade propaganda site, when it comes with instructions in the pages on what to say? A premade site run by someone who is not good at their job?
Comments, questions, informed critiques, angry ranting and raving?
Tear Collection Kits available at poster's expense.
Frau Elenska REALLY likes her Paris shopping sprees...
Did First Lady of Ukraine,Olena Zelenska, purchase a 4.5 million dollar Bugatti?
He makes the same points as other have, that the purported invoice has errors in how the French write up legal documents. French use commas, not periods to separate thousands, 1,000 not 1.000. There is the mixed use of French and English, instead of all French, and so on.
he concludes this is an "active document". It is a fake that is seeded to friendly channels, who spread it on their own. Those who believe it are what we used to call "useful idiots".
The question then becomes which came first?
The need publish and then quickly “fact check” a demonstrably fake story,
or the fake story itself?
Were the story and the fact check designed together as pure political narrative?
That would be my guess.
They had me believing it when I read about it last night.
I assumed as much, but thank you for posting. The gullible Kremlin-lovers automatically believe anything bad about Zelensky and wife. This is at least the third fraud of this kind, probably more.
Sour faces all around the Unit 54777 offices. They over-reached themselves and got fisked within hours.
Better luck next time, Boris!
What did you think about the site starting June 22, a supposedly "French" site using US servers, and about the page where the preprinted instructions on what to say were left on before publishing the page?
These are really clear clues this is a premade disinformation site.
All the rest is chaff.
The fake site and story following Russian disinfo tactics of flooding the internet with garbage came first.
The need to dispel it followed.
First of all, how often do you see a lady buy a fancy car like that one?
Maybe if it was Volodymyr himself, I'll believe it. But he's a little bit busy at the moment.
I suggest that many of these stories are invented solely for the purpose of dispelling them.
The President of Ukraine depends on the world’s help and support, the last thing he would do is what all these fake stories claim, and that is the purpose of all these fake stories planted by Russia and their agents.
Trends I've seen with all the phony stories Russia has created about Zelensky.
Chump C. Mulligan weighs in from Down In The Flats.
"The act of making an argument seem wrong or stupid by showing the mistakes in each of its points, or an instance of doing this".
Just like the namesake of term, the Russians make it easy.
What is Pooty-Poot going to end up with except with totally trashed acreage?
General Mike Flynn believes it’s true.
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