US President Joe Biden at the White House, March 8, 2022MOSCOW, Mar 11 The American satirical website The Babylon Bee had to explain itself after the publication of a comic «news» about the intention of US President Joe Biden to sell Alaska to Russia. «In a renewed determination, the Biden administration has taken the first step to increase oil production for the Americans by selling Alaska back to Russia so we can start drilling there again for oil,» wrote The Babylon Bee. However, according to FOX News journalist Lindsey Cornick, this article was posted on social networks by representatives of the US Libertarian Party, the link to it was shared more than two thousand times. />Photos with a «sad» Macron turned into a memeDue to the high popularity of this note of the portal, which does not hide the fact that all the materials in it are purely for entertainment, they were seriously studied by the fact-checking department of the national newspaper USA Today. «Based on our analysis, we evaluate the allegation that Biden is going to sell Alaska to Russia as a satire. This allegation stems from an article published by the satirical website The Babylon Bee. Evidence that Biden plans to sell Alaska has not been found, ”wrote USA Today fact checker Ana Fagi. Cormack said the site is often targeted by mainstream media such as The New York Times and CNN for spreading «disinformation» despite the fact that it advertises itself as purely a satirical site. Facebook also flagged one article as misinformation for claiming that CNN runs its news through a washing machine before airing it. Noticing this increased interest in their publications, the authors of the portal, reminiscent of the Russian joke news agency Panorama, responded to the USA verdict Today.
Members of «Aidar» in the village of Polovinkino spawned fakes, the Foreign Ministry of the LPR said «Thanks to the fact-checkers from @USATODAY, who indicated that this the article is satirical. We would like to remove it, because we now understand that it is not true and completely made up. We do our best to post only absolutely reliable headlines, but sometimes we make mistakes. We will try to work better, «the publication stated in Twitter.Earlier, the Greek TV channel Star was convicted of spreading fake news about the situation in Mariupol. Journalists said Mariupol residents were catching mice because «they have no other food,» although footage showed a civilian chasing his pet guinea pig that had escaped from a cage.
The Greek channel was accused of a fake because of a story about Mariupol residents
