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.
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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