Crucified boy

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"Boy Crucified" was a television show that aired on the evening news on July 12-13, 2014 on Pervy, Russia . The program appeared as part of Russian reporting on the Ukraine war and was officially titled “A woman who fled from Sloviansk remembers how the young son and the wife of a militiaman were executed before her ”. The television report contained false testimony from an alleged eyewitness who claimed that Ukrainian soldiers tortured Sloviansk residents and crucified a three-year-old boy .

The program met with a great public response. A number of Russian politicians and journalists accused the station of propaganda and violation of professional ethics. Later research showed that in Slovyansk no one could confirm the woman's claims and no one heard of crucifixions in the city. The report broadcast by the Perwy channel also contained several errors. B. the main square described in it not. Even some media loyal to the Kremlin criticized the station. The story about the "crucified boy" was later exposed as a deception and the alleged eyewitness as a Russian actress. The fabricated atrocity is often cited as an example of the Russian information war against Ukraine and as a sign of declining quality standards and disinformation in state mass media in Russia. The spread of the news about the "crucified boy" was later used for statistical analysis of the expansion of fake information in modern social networks and search engines . In Russian mass culture , the episode has become synonymous with fake news .

The deception about the "crucified boy" was picked up in the media in episode 5 of the seventh season of the television series Homeland .

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ «Мальчика» не было, но он живет: Кто придумал самый кровавый фейк войны на Донбассе thought of the life of the donkey (dt. . In: Novaya Gazeta , July 15, 2015.
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  14. ↑ Homeland recap: season 7, episode 5 - Active Measures. In: The Guardian , March 18, 2018.