Tuesday, August 2, 2022

Ukrainian Border Guards Fake Action on Front Line

 


You tap into the internet where your eye catches a headline:  “Ukrainian Border Guards Pummel   Russians on Front Line.”  Open the site and up pops a video made by a digital marketing firm called Viral Press.  All the video shows (with a thrumming soundtrack) is a few supposedly Ukrainian soldiers (you can’t even be sure of that) loading ammo into small artillery, light machine guns, and a tank. 

Now unless you’re a complete idiot, you will realize no ‘Russians’ are being ‘pummeled’ and that the video is up for sale to anyone with a motive for buying it.  Likely buyers might be the Ukrainian propaganda arm, financial facilities with investments in the Ukraine (purposeful “the”), and the U.S. state department under Anthony Blinken.

Note: Viral Press and other sites are making money from playing off on your bad instincts.  Be careful of what you read no matter where it comes from.  Especially consider the source.  Journalism has deteriorated from the days when responsible organizations required verification of facts through three different and respected sources before they’d even think of publishing the story.

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