Polygraph
Tuesday 3 October 2023
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“…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, 2023The 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. -
"Voice of America chose this image to accompany the story about the beginning of official operation of BRI train in Indonesia."
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. -
“President Irfaan Ali, enough of lies and of trying to hide the historical truth that weighs on the dispute over the Essequibo territory, whose only means of resolution, as you well know, is the Geneva Agreement of 1966.”
Guyana is adhering to the Geneva Agreement of 1966 in trying to resolve the dispute over Essequibo through the United Nations International Court of Justice. -
“Rewriting the history of World War II is unacceptable. The Brown Plague must be stopped. This is exactly what the Russian Armed Forces are doing in Ukraine under the special military operation.”
Contrary to rewriting World War II history, Canada’s leadership expressed embarrassment, apologized and took appropriate steps to rectify the incident with the Nazi veteran. Russia's intervention in Ukraine is not a special operation but a war aimed at bringing Ukraine under Moscow’s control. -
“China ... urges relevant countries to immediately lift all illegal unilateral sanctions against Syria.”
Unilateral sanctions are not backed by a United Nations resolution but are legal according to the laws of the country that imposes them. -
“MTS was the first company in Russia to present the iPhone 15 Pro Max in its flagship store a day before the start of global sales."
The Russian government uses a scheme called parallel imports to avoid bans and get sanctioned foreign goods to the domestic market. That includes the iPhone 15 sold in Russia despite Apple’s exit last year. -
"The American judiciary is a full-fledged judiciary. So is the judiciary of Turkey. And you have to respect that. We are a state of law, and inside that state of law, this is how we lived, and this is how we will keep on living."
Despite claims of judicial independence, Erdogan has used Turkey’s courts to target dissent. -
“To say they [Chinese press outlets and social media users] ‘made up or spread disinformation’ is completely unfounded. If anyone was ‘making up or spreading disinformation’, it would be The New York Times, not them.”
At least five organizations that are authoritative in cybersecurity have independently verified that the Chinese government has created a massive network of social media users tasked with sowing discord in the United States. -
“In yet another attack spearheaded by the West against freedom of speech in Iran, the Australian government has imposed a fresh round of sanctions on a number of Iranian individuals and entities, including the English-language Press TV news network, on the anniversary of foreign-backed riots in the country.”
Australia sanctioned Iran’s state-run Press TV for airing forced confessions, not the exercise of "free speech," which Iranian authorities have denied its citizens through systematic repression. -
"In total, 65.14% of the Kherson region’s voters took part in the voting."
Any form of Russian “elections” in Ukrainian war zones are illegal in the eyes of international law. Russia’s claims of high turnout are unverifiable. -
“We’re not [punishing] anyone at all. Who are we [punishing]? This [foreign agent] law has been in force since 1937, I think, or 1938 in the USA, ours is almost a copy, only it’s much more liberal.”
The Russian government has been using the “foreign agent” law as an effective tool for public disrepute and criminal persecution of dissent, including in suppressing press freedom. -
Large lightning appears before earthquake in Morocco with unknown causes.
Social media users leverage videos of flashing lights in Morocco, some faked, to falsely pin Morocco earthquake on a U.S. weather weapon.