Polygraph
Friday 20 October 2023
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Vladimir Putin
Russian President
“…the Belt and Road Initiative proposed by President Xi Jinping 10 years ago has been a huge success and is now a widely recognized major international public goods.”
Read more...The Belt and Road Initiative has been largely successful in increasing China’s influence on the international stage, yet scientists and environmentalists warn the initiative could have immediate biophysical impacts and cause irreversible environmental damage. -
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RT
Russian state broadcaster
“Palestinian officials accused Israel of targeting the facility, while Israel blamed the blast on a wayward rocket fired by the Islamic Jihad militant group, despite a government spokesman seemingly taking responsibility immediately after the strike.”
Read more...None of the Israeli government spokespersons took responsibility for the attack on the hospital, and evidence is piling up that it was not a “strike” but the explosion of a misfired rocket. -
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Vladimir Putin
Russian president
“We proceed from the fact that all people are equal, all people have the same rights; the rights and freedoms of one country and one nation end where the rights and freedoms of another person of an entire state appear."
Read more...Russia is Europe’s last colonial empire, denying equal rights and the right to self-determination to indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities. -
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Jenya zub LIVE NEWS
Telegram Channel
“Preliminarily, the video shows the work of the newest Israeli laser air defense system ‘Iron Beam.’”
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atGeoPolndIR, X account
“Several high profile Israeli General's captured by Hammas.” [original grammar and spelling]
Read more...The video was taken in September in Nagorno-Karabakh and shows Azerbaijani intelligence officials detaining ex-Karabakh leaders. -
Read more...Washington maintains it is capable of meeting Israel’s and Ukraine’s defense needs.
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atTalibanPRD, X account
“A little boy in #Gaza grieving for his sisters sees no distinction between an #Israeli soldier and a Western journalist spewing #Zionist propaganda. One murders with a rifle, while the other murders with a pen. #FreeGaza #FreePalestine”
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Read more...The video is not fresh from Gaza: France 24 filmed it in Syria’s Yarmouk refugee camp in 2013.
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Fun History
Weibo Influencer
“The Japanese are so good at bragging, 20 million (Chinese) travelers?...If there were indeed 20 million Chinese going to Japan, the Japanese won’t dare to sleep at night!”
Read more...Japanese news media reported a surge of Chinese visitors during China’s National Day holiday, but not that there would be 20 million Chinese travelers arriving in Japan. -
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Afshin Rattansi
Presenter of RT broadcast “Going Underground”
“A week after Zelensky/Nazi SS Hunka given ovation by Trudeau & the entire Canadian parliament, Zelensky in Ukraine is presented with the emblem of the 14th SS Grenadier Division to which Hunka belonged, that massacred thousands of Jews, Poles and dissidents during the holocaust.”
Read more...Zelenskyy was presented with a flag of Ukraine’s 103rd Territorial Defense Brigade, not a “Nazi emblem.” -
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Russian Monitor
Self-described news media account on X
“…The U.S. [h]as launched an Indirect recruitment campaign amongst student, urging them to pay their ‘student loan’ by joining the Ukrainian army as an Alternative.”
Source: X, September 28, 2023Read more...The images, first shared by a sanctioned Russian war propagandist, fit into a disinformation pattern tying poverty in the U.S. to the war in Ukraine. -
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Nik Stankovic
X User
"Voice of America chose this image to accompany the story about the beginning of official operation of BRI train in Indonesia."
Read more...X user digitally altered a screenshot of the report to attribute it to VOA’s news center, which never published such a piece. The picture was the VOA’s Mandarin/Cantonese service’s web poster’s error later corrected with an editor’s note.
