Ukrainian media believed in a fake that 50 thousand bees attacked the Russian military near Kherson.

According to RT, the author of the “news” is a local resident, he composed the text in ten minutes and anonymously posted it in the OSBB chat, popular in Ukraine.

According to the man, he wanted to check how the Ukrainians would react to a completely invented and ridiculous fake. As a result, the “news” was reprinted by a number of major Ukrainian publications, without even trying to verify the information.

“The formula is very simple: an epic story, preferably with a fantastic element, plus a reference to the location. It’s scary to imagine if this is done purposefully, for money and with a large team,”the man added.

@rt_russian

  • @ledward
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    • @PolandIsAStateOfMind
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      Most of them. I have a method with 95% hit: look at polish media. Whatever they write about Ukraine is almost certainly propaganda or just lazy hearsay as in OP.

  • @HaSch
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    I know that already the ancient Greek cities used to embed local folklore into classical mythology for the purpose of raising morale, but at least their stories were good, whereas the Ukrainian ones are somehow both too unimaginative to intrigue the mind and too unrealistic to appeal to inquiry

  • AgreeableLandscape☭
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    It’s like that one time a letter written by a “Uyghur” surfaced on Reddit, where the given translation was “I’m in a forced labour camp” or something. And of course they ate it up.

    And the actual words in the page was “if you believed this, you’re an idiot” lol

  • @ivy
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    how do they call Russians “ruscists” and praise bees by calling them “banderavtsy” (from Ukraine hero and WWII Nazi Stepan Bandera) and don’t see a conflict

  • @VictimOfReligion
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    Lmao, that’s literally how miracles are made and canonized. My fucking city even has as his patron day how St. Narcissus made a shit ton of flies making French troupes to run away from the city during Napoleonic times. I repeat, this shit is the official day of my city, and canonized as a fucking official miracle.