AWARDS Better than the Ballon d’or, better than Miss France… Here is the Fake off d’or ceremony
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The Covid, big winner of the ceremony? — LF
- 2022 is coming to an end soon. The year surprised, amazed, disappointed and sometimes annoyed us.
- Let’s pay him a final tribute through the first (and perhaps last) Fake off d’or ceremony.
- The most emblematic investigation, the event that almost knocked us out, the most manipulated images: discover the ten prizes awarded by the Fake Off Academy.
2022 is over and it’s time for retrospectives. We are not going to lie to you, it’s been a year rich in emotions, but also and above all in news. She started on a Thursday morning in February with the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Hundreds and hundreds of images of bruised civilians, dismembered bodies, but also calls for solidarity.
In France, we also had our share of twists and turns, particularly between the presidential campaign in the spring, the forest fires in the summer, and the winter energy crisis. Among these seasons of events, none has been able to escape the gusts sent by social networks, otherwise known as fake news. Against all odds, our Fake off service attempted to to find the most accurate information. With modesty, we have therefore decided; to reward our most outstanding investigations during the first (and surely last) Golden Fake off ceremony.
From our correspondent on Twittosphère,
Ladies and gentlemen(we say it in English because ça has more panache),
Welcome to; the Golden Fake off ceremony. What better place than the Twittersphere to meet at the end of the year. If there is one that made us vibrate this year, it’s her. Fake images, videos taken out of context, deliberately mistranslated sounds… What a year! We even came close to ending the year with the post-Musk explosion of Twitter, but no, the social network remains intact for the moment. Phew. Çcould have cost us our job…
Without further ado, we will reward our most outstanding debunkages of the year. They have been surprising, funny, vigilant, vexing sometimes. Some have been moving and even very captivating for our journalists. Enough suspense, here are our nominees according to ten categories defined by the Academy of Fake off (it’s just us, but we were told that we had the right to be a unpompous).
- The most emblematic investigation
At the end of February, the Ukrainian town of Boutcha (near kyiv) was the scene of sordid clashes. A few weeks later, Ukrainian soldiers retake the city and discover dozens of corpses, believed to be civilians. Videos of the massacre begin to appear. circulate, in particular on the Telegram platform.
This same beginning of April, a Ukrainian media publishes a video of the corpses. The bodies in question would move, accuse many Internet users who suggest that these civilians are only actors. During our investigation, we scrutinized to the magnifying glass the twenty seconds of video. Result: the action of the bodies was essentially due to the movement of a drop of water and the distorted view of the windshield of the moving car.
- The investigation that raises the most fear
Sometimes the fake newsecho certain legitimate fears. Vaccination is one of them. Often accused to be at the cause of side effects, the vaccine was suspected in July to change the rh of our blood group. According to Internet users, this modification would change to; the second dose of vaccine against Covid-19. Information very quickly denied by the French Blood Establishment, with 20 Minutes.
- The most amazing survey
Not easy to understand category share as the information we process is always full of imagination. But as we had to make people jealous, we chose to reward the investigation into the shortage of treatment against diabetes.
In October, many Internet users alerted on the difficulties encountered when purchasing their diabetes treatment. Ozempic, a necessary medicine for diabetics, happened to be out of stock at because of the promotion by some influencers of a beneficial product for weight loss. The product has even been put forward by Elon Musk.
At the editorial office, we first believed in a joke. But no, the producing laboratory assured According to 20 Minutesthat Ozempic had seen a 40 % increase in demand.
- The event that nearly knocked us out
It’s happened in November, when the long autumn days return: the FIFA World Cup in Qatar. We saw it coming. For example, we already had had to, at the end of September, verify the statements of a consultant who was too present in the media and who claimed that there had been as many deaths on the construction sites of La Défense as in Qatar.
However, the arrival of the Football World Cup will have surprised us all the same by the number of fake newsthat she takes with her. We will have seen everything: the assertion that the supporters could not stay in Qatar after their elimination, or the idea that the supporters were under increased surveillance. Still others claimed stadiums in Qatar would collapse.
- The event whose images have been the most manipulated
At the beginning of October, during the disputes in Iran after the death of Mahsa Amini, many images circulated; to show the courage of women and the anger of the Iranian people. However, some videos relayed massively have sometimes been diverted. This is particularly the case with this moving video of a father dancing on his daughter’s grave. According to the video, the woman would have died during the disputes and this just before her marriage. Except that the video was from a series broadcast a few years ago in Azerbaijan.
The image war was all the more striking during the broadcast of images of Hadis Najafi, a young demonstrator killed during the protests. Having become the symbol of the revolt, the young woman was given images that ultimately did not represent her.
- The coined term of the year
In September, after the presidential campaign, Eric Zemmour pulled a new term from his hat: that of “francocide”. Although he explains that he contests the term “feminicide”, he is inspired by it and tries to use it to transform “into a political fact” miscellaneous facts that the French would suffer. However, according to the three experts we interviewed for our article, the word has no historical, legal or political value.
- The Fake off that made a splash
It is also difficult to approach 2022 without talking about climate change. In particular, there were the fires in Gironde in the summer. who motivated some internet users conspire around ecological projects that would be the source of the problem. But not only.
In May, we were particularly interested in carbon bombs. But what is it? They designate the largest fossil fuel extraction projects, whose potential emissions would exceed 1 gigatonne of CO2 over their operating life. According to a survey by the NGO Reclaim Finance, 24 projects involve TotalEnergies. Four of them are incompatible with the recommendations of the International Energy Agency.
- < li>The most woke Fake off
Being often accused of of “ wokisme » ;, you might as well invent a price for it. So what better investigation than the Amazon betrayal of Tolkien’s work, The Rings of Power ? As soon as the first episodes were broadcast, the presence of black actors in the casting exacerbated the situation. Tolkien fans. However, in the universe of the writer, there already existed; “A great diversity; of skin, hair and eye colours,” explained Vincent Ferré, professor of general and comparative literature at the time. the University Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris 3).
- The most refined shortcut
How can we talk about the year 2022 without mentioning the refiners’ the approach of the All Saints holidays? On social networks, Internet users have questioned the legitimacy of employees at TotalEnergies to go on strike when they are already on strike. handsomely paid. Using a press release of press published by the company, they point’ of the gifts made to the employee, to the the continuation of the negotiations. Except that many scrambles have been noticed, especially in the difference between median and average salary.
- The indestructible fake news
For this category, it is difficult to separate them. Fake news is as tough as Covid-19 variants. Fortunately, the Academy tells us in the headset that we have the right to ties. What a relief!
How to switch to side of this off-putting intox that values the heritage of Jean-Luc Mélenchon at more than two million euros. However, we have scrutinized the declaration of public assets of the former candidate for the presidential election and nothing mentions such a sum.
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- The honorary fake off, for his entire career
Well done Obviously, we should not forget the Covid-19 figures which for three years have been constantly called into question. Recently, Internet users have left to hear that the figures for hospitalizations and deaths linked to Covid-19 were completely false. The Commission for access to administrative documents (Cada) would have, according to them, estimated that there were no numbers. The opinion has been well received. published, but it has been somewhat neglected. hijacked.
Thank you for having followed this wonderful ceremony and we tell you to; next year!