MSNBC released this video of Putin "from unnamed sources in the intelligence community."
Posted on 02/25/2022 10:27:19 AM PST by algore
ArmA III, a video game that in the right circumstances can look pretty realistic, has a long history of turning up on news broadcasts and being either confused with or intentionally used in place of actual camera footage of real-world events. That trend is continuing in the current crisis in Ukraine.
As Bloomberg reports, some of the most-viewed videos on Facebook’s gaming channel today were a number of clips purporting to be of military action taking place in Ukraine, “watched by more than 110,000 people and shared more than 25,000 times,” before they were taken down by Facebook.
The same videos are also circulating on other social media, including Twitter; here’s one of the clips, posted with the text, “Ukraine fires missiles to intercept Russian aircraft’s artillery fire,” though really it’s some Arma III footage
At time of posting, that tweet has 11,000 likes and almost 2,000 retweets. It’s easy for you and I to sit here and say, “Well of course that’s a video game,” but not everyone is familiar with ArmA’s attention to detail and visual fidelity. And remember, the smaller and blurrier these videos get on social media, the easier they are to pass off as actual footage.
This also speaks to a wider problem that anyone who has been online in the last 24 hours (or last 10 years) will have seen unfolding: any coverage of the invasion that allows input from the community is overflowing with opportunists looking for engagement, no matter how inaccurate the content they’re actually sharing is
MSNBC released this video of Putin "from unnamed sources in the intelligence community."
That’s a nice game but kinda pricy if you want all the stuff that comes with it.
This is still more believable than CNN...
Brilliant!
Thanks. I thought this article might be bs but seems legit.
There’s a YouTube channel showing all these 20 second clips etc of stuff like this but with no information, no dates and time or places.
I wondered if they’re using recycled video.
This video games is also a possibility and is verified in some cases.
Remember the GI Joe hostage in Iraq?
I see we’re on the same page.
The propaganda is hot and heavy and started almost immediately.
As is the case in all wars.
Why am I not surprised???
News outlets are so corrupt and lazy, and most consumers of their propaganda are so stupid...
Yeah, I remember that. Desert Storm II.
At least when Bernie Shaw displayed the skills he gained at the Les Nessman School of Weather Reporting and War Correspondence (“looking out my window…”) he was actually looking out his window.
EPIC!
Not the first time. Back when the Wagner Group was wiped out by combined US fire, one unit of which was an AC-130, there was all sorts of footage on the web and linked in FR posts from the game showing night vision wipe out of hundreds of enemies including shooting down helicopters.
According to some here they are all paid Soros minions ...
Where’s Brittany Stewart?
Sometimes it recycled video, from other past wars in various places or even military exercises.
Other times it’s from a video game or flight sim. There was a popular one one on Telegram claiming to be a Ukrainian fighter jet shooting down a Russian fighter, but was actually from a flight sim (DCS).
Lots of crazy fake stuff out there. Much of it apparently is simply from people trying to get attention and followers on social media, not from “paid trolls” or whatever. And then it’s propagated by people who fall for the hoax and post it again and again on various platforms.
Some is disinformation purposely put out by operatives, of course.
Anybody remember the photo of the blasted burned-out Libyan tank with the miraculously pristine box of Viagra next to it? What a hoot.
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