According to Russian media reports, recently Canadian independent journalist Bartlett went to the world's focal point area of Mariupol for an interview and made some truths public.
Bartlett's resume shows that she has been covering conflicts in the Middle East for many years and has won numerous international awards. As an independent journalist, Bartlett is still very professional and has been battling fake news reported in the West, and this time it is the same.
Previously, western media had been claiming that the Russian coalition had killed civilians in Mariupol, and there was "evidence". The so-called "evidence" is a cemetery, which Western media insists is a "mass grave" for burying civilians, which contains 9,000 corpses.
These Western media sources are all the same, from the revelations of vadim Boychenko, the former mayor of Mariupol.
So Batlitt went to Mariupol to conduct a field trip to the so-called "mass graves" reported by Western media.
As a result, when I went to the place, it was really different from what was reported in the West.
Bartlett described the scene he saw, the so-called "mass grave", which is an ordinary cemetery, not much different from an ordinary cemetery.
In addition to what he saw with his own eyes, Bartlett also interviewed gravediggers, who were responsible for burial, who had the most say. One of them told Bartlett that it wasn't a mass grave at all, strongly rejecting Boychenko's claims.
The gravedigger is a native of Mariupol, and if his compatriots are really slaughtered and buried in the so-called "mass graves", how can they help the Russian army to "cover"? You know, Bartlett is a Western journalist, and if there is a truth, the gravediggers will not hide it from Bartlett.
After making the truth public, Bartlett summed it up. She said she would also expose fake news as she did in the Middle East, with blood on the hands of those who carried out false propaganda.
At the same time, Bartlett also issued an appeal: "After the Western media has spread countless lies, I hope that people will think critically in the face of new claims, especially when the suspects repeat them in unison." ”
This appeal can be said to be teaching the public how to distinguish fake news and to think about new propositions, especially when many people are repeating them. This is exactly one of the western ways of reporting fake news, a topic, and suddenly a lot of Western media followed, and all from one source, all from one position. At this time, we must be vigilant, this is most likely fake news.
If there is such a thing, it is almost impossible for a source to have only one source.
Specific to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, there is another very obvious manifestation. Many journalists in the Western media can't really go deep into the front line, and a lot of the news comes from so-called "sources", or a sentence or two from a Ukrainian politician, and then enshrines it as the truth, coupled with their own imagination, they can make a big report and then issue accusations against Russia.
This is relatively good, at best, to smear Russia.
There is an even more frightening model, through posing, fabricating fake news out of thin air, providing ammunition for western countries to fight Russia.
In theory, journalists are quoting official sources. But in Western countries, this order can be reversed, with the official taking media reports as sources.
Therefore, fake news is not just as simple as deceiving the public, but has gradually developed into a weapon of the Western lie empire.