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Romania, NATO and sham accounts: Fake Euronews content persists online
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Romania, NATO and sham accounts: Fake Euronews content persists online
False videos in the style of Euronews reports claim that a Romanian politician has called for the country to leave NATO and join forces with Russia.
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Fake Euronews content persists online
00:02
Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine,
00:09
the Kremlin has intensified a specific kind of propaganda campaign,
00:13
which consists of digitally altering and faking news reports from mainstream news outlets.
00:19
For instance, a news segment which was aired on Good Morning Romania in February
00:23
recently surfaced on pro-Russian social media accounts and Telegram channels.
00:28
They took a statement made by Christian Diakonescu,
00:31
head of Romania's presidential chancellery, out of context
00:34
to make it seem like he supported the idea of Romania leaving NATO and joining Russia.
00:40
The accounts that reposted the clip cut it short and inserted Romanian and Russian flags,
00:45
as well as the communist hammer and sickle symbol, to further push a pro-Kremlin narrative.
00:50
In the real report broadcast in February,
00:52
Diakonescu suggested that Moscow wants NATO to revert its security guarantees
00:57
to what they were in 1997.
00:59
This would mean that countries that joined the alliance after 1997,
01:03
such as Romania, wouldn't be covered, according to the report.
01:06
Diakonescu also said that Russia wants to unilaterally establish a sphere of influence
01:11
over Eastern Europe and force the West to accept it.
01:14
He later clarified that neither issue is up for discussion,
01:18
and that Russia's President Vladimir Putin first released the information
01:21
at the beginning of his full-scale invasion of Ukraine
01:24
as potential measures he would accept to stop his offensive.
01:28
Romania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has rejected any of the allegations made in the fake Euronews report,
01:33
stating that it amounts to a typical line of attack by pro-Russian actors.
01:37
Other Euronews bureaus have also been targeted,
01:39
with fake Instagram and Telegram accounts,
01:42
which purport to be Euronews' Uzbekistan bureau, also cropping up recently.
01:46
This comes as the pro-Russian Matryoshka campaign ramps up its efforts
01:50
to spread disinformation in Moldova ahead of its elections,
01:54
often in the form of fake Euronews reports.
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