Beijing, March 7 (reporter Meng Xiangjun) - recently, the conflict between Russia and Ukraine has become the focus of attention. I believe many people have seen this scene circulated on the Internet - a Ukrainian father ran to tears when saying goodbye to his daughter because he was going to the front line to fight against the Russian Army and had to send his wife and daughter away.

The video spread “viral” on social platforms in many countries, but then there was an amazing reversal.

It turned out that this was a man in Donbas area. He sent his family to Russia and stayed against the Ukrainian army.

A popular online farewell video of father and daughter opened a corner of the public opinion war. Image source: screenshot of Twitter page.

Start a picture, the content depends on editing? There are many similar reversals.

The conflict between Russia and Ukraine is not only a gunfight, but also a vigorous “information war” between Russia and Ukraine and the western countries behind them in cyberspace. The competition for the field of public opinion, the right to speak and information channels is as fierce as the real battlefield.

In the real battlefield, Russia announced for the first time on March 2 the casualties since the start of military operations, saying that 498 Russian troops had been killed and 1597 injured in Ukraine.

However, this is very different from the figure announced by Ukraine of 5300 casualties of Russian soldiers.

On February 26 local time, Ukrainian soldiers collected unexploded shells after the exchange of fire with Russia.

Who should insist on releasing the contradictory information?

Don’t worry, let’s look at other news first:

Hundreds of parachutes fell from the sky. Was that the Russian Army Airborne in Ukraine?

Several videos were taken of huge explosion scenes, some of which burst into the sky and some mushroom clouds rose. Was that the use of prohibited weapons by the Russian army?

According to the Internet, a huge explosion occurred in “Ukraine”, and mushroom clouds and thick smoke rose.

The pilot nicknamed “ghost of Kiev” shot down six Russian fighters a day alone?

When the Russian army captured heihaizmein Island (Snake Island) near Odessa, the “Thirteen warriors” of the Ukrainian army on the island refused to be captured and died collectively?

It is said on the Internet that 13 Ukrainian troops stationed in Snake Island “died”, and the Ukrainian President “will award their medals”. Image source: screenshot of Twitter page.

Seeing here, you may understand that the so-called news with strong content and strong rendering, which can provoke viewers’ strong emotions more than ordinary news, is false.

At present, there are three kinds of false information about the situation in Russia and Ukraine:

One is the adulteration of true and false.

As mentioned earlier, paratroopers parachute is an old picture of Russian military exercises. Mushroom clouds rise, which is the scene of the big bang in Beirut port, Lebanon in 2020.

Netizens pointed out that the online video of Russian bombing of Ukraine actually came from the Beirut big bang. Image source: screenshot of Twitter page.

Through the combination of real pictures and false words, the producers create an illusion that things “happen at the moment and locally”, and even say some game pictures as real events to fool the audience.

Second, fictional stories.

Multiple investigations found that the heroic pilot “ghost of Kiev” did not find this person, and the “Thirteen warriors” who died in the battle of Snake Island also did not exist.

In order to refute the rumor, the Russian Ministry of defense released a video of the Ukrainian garrison on Snake Island. All 82 Ukrainian troops have no casualties. They voluntarily lay down their arms and surrender to the Russian side. They will return to their hometown after performing legal procedures.

The Russian army distributed bottled water to the Ukrainian army soldiers stationed in Snake Island who defected. Image source: video screenshot of the Russian Ministry of defense.

Earlier, Ukrainian President Zelensky said that 13 “Ukrainian defenders” on Snake Island were “killed” by the Russian army and will be posthumously awarded the title of hero. However, the Ukrainian defense ministry later denied the relevant news.

Third, replace flowers with trees.

This routine, like the story of father and daughter saying goodbye, exists in the event itself, but its details are adapted, reversed or distorted.

Netizens clarified that the online picture of Ukrainian children injured was actually shot in Syria in 2018. Image source: screenshot of Twitter page.

Similarly, children who were victims of the Syrian bombing were described as victims of the Russian Ukrainian conflict, and so on.

According to the data of the Social Council of the Russian Federation, recently, there have been 1.3 million false reports on the situation in Ukraine on the Internet, especially in Donbas.

Mizulina, a member of the committee, said that the number of false information has been rising, and the production speed is very fast. About 100 new false messages appear every 20 minutes.

Who is concocting massive amounts of false information?

Data figure: Snowden delivered a video speech.

The United States is the number one suspect. With the exposure of Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, Snowden, a former employee of the CIA, and others, the United States has long been known to use the Internet to monitor and infiltrate the world on a large scale.

Not to mention the actions of mainstream US media Bloomberg and Fox News - the former had to apologize for falsely reporting the war between Russia and Ukraine; The latter reported the conflict between Russia and Ukraine with the scene of Russian military exercises in 2021, which was criticized.

However, the west, especially the United States, has put the hat of “matrix” on Russia. In recent years, it has continued to accuse Moscow of using hackers to achieve political purposes and steal intelligence, such as accusing Russia of manipulating the 2016 US election and believing that then president trump “knew Russia”.

After three years of investigation, we not only failed to find evidence of Trump’s team’s “access to Russia”, but also found that its rival, the former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton campaign team, cooked up the matter.

Data figure: Hillary Clinton.

Hillary Clinton herself was caught in a storm because she “didn’t pay attention to network security” and sent and received classified emails in her private mailbox, and finally lost the election. She was well aware of the importance of the network. In this conflict between Russia and Ukraine, she called on hackers to launch cyber attacks on Russia and suggested the United States to launch an information war.

Hillary Clinton even admitted directly: “we did this in the ‘Arab Spring’, when I was Secretary of state,” and “it is difficult for Putin to plug all the loopholes in the dam”.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Ryabkov pointed out that the West has implemented a “mixed war” against Russia and other countries through unilateral sanctions, interference in internal affairs, spreading rumors and cyber attacks.

Compared with the half covered fake news attacks, in recent days, the websites and networks of large enterprises in Russia’s energy, finance, telecommunications, manufacturing, media and other industries have suffered large-scale attacks and boycotts from the West.

ATM networks of natural gas, oil companies and banks have become the target of hacker attacks. On social networks, twitter, Facebook and instagram have rallied to resist and mark