We're aware of another fake video circulating made to look like a BBC report containing falsified Bellingcat research. It claims that Zelensky's former adviser Oleksiy Arestovych has spent over $500k on private flights. Bellingcat hasn't released any investigation on this topic.
In October a similar false BBC report circulated falsely claiming that Bellingcat had verified Ukrainian weapons sales to Hamas. These fabricated videos appear similar in style and were both circulated on Pro-Kremlin channels https://twitter.com/bellingcat/status/1711788647425409104?s=20
Another fake BBC report has been brought to our attention circulating online, claiming that a Ukranian politician was involved with weapon sales to Hamas. Again Bellingcat has not reported on this subject and the claims and quotes included in the 'report' are falsified. https://twitter.com/dannmuts/status/1732379690516820340
@Bellingcat@mstdn.social It is a measure of Bellingcat's effectiveness that the Kremlin is trying to falsify 'Bellingcat' reports.
You may be over-estimating the relative power of straight text vs image+text
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@Bellingcat hmm not sure whether this is some actor taking advantage of Bellingcat's credibility to push disinformation or just a targeted campaign to discredit Bellingcat itself.
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Block the BBC
@Bellingcat i had forgotten for a moment that right after the hamas attack Putins propaganda channels tried to float the story Hamas had been armed with US weapons supplied to Ukraine.
Its the Russians, truth is a lie…
@Bellingcat bellingcat would never investigate an imperialist US ally, how else would they continue to get funding?
@redlilrascal I feel like you've missed the point ever so slightly.
Classic deflection tactic - who made the fake posts? "Batshit-crazy" James "Shithole" Cleverly?
@Bellingcat Small but important correction. Not Zelensky's advisor, but "advisor to the Office of the President", which is not a position described in Constitution of Ukraine, unlike Advisor to the President of Ukraine which is. "Advisor to the Office of the President" is an unofficial quazi-position that actually means nothing, I guess the best way to read it is more like "friend to Andrii Yermak, the head of the Office" or something.