{"id":1435,"date":"2022-03-23T18:23:22","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T18:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linksus.net\/fact-check-news-is-broadcast-live-on-russian-tv-no-evidence-antiwar-protest-was-fake-usa-today\/"},"modified":"2022-03-23T18:23:22","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T18:23:22","slug":"fact-check-news-is-broadcast-live-on-russian-tv-no-evidence-antiwar-protest-was-fake-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/2022\/03\/23\/fact-check-news-is-broadcast-live-on-russian-tv-no-evidence-antiwar-protest-was-fake-usa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact check: News is broadcast live on Russian TV, no evidence antiwar protest was fake – USA TODAY"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russian state-owned media outlets have\u00a0for weeks presented an alternate reality of the invasion of Ukraine, characterizing the war<\/a> as a \u201cpeacekeeping operation\u201d and pushing disinformation<\/a>.
Online, some claim a Russian producer’s\u00a0antiwar protest\u00a0during a live evening newscast was just another propaganda stunt.
\u201cThere are no live on-air television broadcasts in Russia. None. Ever,\u201d reads a March 15 Facebook post<\/a> that generated more than 400 interactions within six days. \u201cLike most of the world, I saw the video of the \u2018brave Russian woman\u2019 yesterday. On the one hand I thought, \u2018oh, wow, amazing\u2019. But at the same time, there was something that felt off.\u201d
On March 14, Marina Ovsyannikova interrupted a live broadcast<\/a> from the Channel One network in Moscow by holding a sign reading\u00a0“No War” in English. She was later detained and taken into custody, according to the human rights group OVD-Info<\/a>.
Following her arrest, Ovsyannikova was questioned for 14 hours<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0appeared in court<\/a>. She was released and\u00a0charged with<\/a> \u201cdiscrediting the Russian Armed Forces,” according to Pavel Chikov<\/a>, a Russian human rights lawyer representing her.
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The user\u00a0who published the Facebook post, Texas-based singer-songwriter Bria Blessing,\u00a0questioned how Ovsyannikova gained access to the studio with a large poster, her \u201cnonchalant, almost playful\u201d body language and the lack of reaction from the news anchor sitting at the desk.
\u201cThe answer – it was all staged. It\u2019s now come out that the whole thing was fake,\u201d Blessing wrote,\u00a0pointing to a 2015 article<\/a> from The Guardian about the Kremlin\u2019s information warfare.
Similar versions of<\/a> the claim circulated on<\/a> Facebook and Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0where\u00a0some members of Ukraine’s parliament<\/a> shared it.
But there are live broadcasts on state-owned Russian TV channels, according to independent fact-checking organizations<\/a>. Media and disinformation experts say\u00a0the post isn’t evidence the demonstration was fake.
In an email to USA TODAY, Larissa Doroshenko, one of the users who shared the post, offered no evidence that TV broadcasts are not live or that the protest was staged.<\/strong>
USA TODAY reached out to the Facebook users who shared the claim for comment.\u00a0
Vera Tolz<\/a>, a professor of Russian studies at the University of Manchester, said\u00a0in an email that\u00a0there had been live TV news broadcasts in Russian until at least March 17, noting that state-owned channels modified their approach to broadcasting in response to the protest.
\u201cHistorically, all major newscasts are \u2018clean live\u2019 because news could happen during the show and the importance may require immediate reaction from an anchor,” Vasily Gatov<\/a>, a Russian media analyst and senior fellow at the University of Southern California\u2019s Annenberg Center, told USA TODAY in an email.\u00a0
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He pointed to and translated a March 15 Facebook post<\/a> from his friend and former Channel One news anchor<\/a> Yulia Pankratova, who wrote that the network\u2019s evening news broadcast always airs live, without even a one-minute delay.
Marek Bekerman<\/a>, a lecturer in international journalism at the University of Salford in the United Kingdom, said in an email that while it\u2019s easy to deceive audiences into believing a pre-recorded\u00a0item is live, it would be difficult to do so \u201con a continuous basis over a period of time for a news-oriented outlet.\u201d He said it\u2019s also \u201cnot practical\u201d or necessary for the purposes of Russian propaganda or disinformation.
\u201cThere is no logical connection between this incident and the coverage of the civilian deaths or atrocities in the conflict,\u201d Bekerman said. \u201cClaiming that the protest on Russian television distracts attention away from events on the ground verges on paranoia \u2013 if anything, it brings it in a sharper focus.\u201d
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Adrian Campbell<\/a>, an associate professor at the University of Birmingham in the U.K., said if the news wasn’t broadcast live, it would have been reflected in reporting of the incident from independent Russian news outlets, such as Meduza.\u00a0
Social media users expressed skepticism that Ovsyannikova was able to interrupt the broadcast and get through security. But Russian media experts say it isn’t unusual for a producer to have studio access.\u00a0
“Ovsyannikova’s social media shows that she had been a long-time employee of the television network,” Sarah Oates,<\/a> a professor at the University of Maryland who researches Russian propaganda, said in an email. “Television production works in Russia very much the way it does in the west \u2013 trusted employees are often near the set and have full access.”\u00a0
Ovsyannikova used her employee ID badge to pass through two security check points and \u201cbreezed past a final guard\u201d at the studio door, according to the Wall Street Journal<\/a>.
Pankratova, the former Channel One news anchor, said\u00a0in the Facebook post<\/a> that<\/a> when she worked for the network, security guards were in place. But employees such as editors or makeup artists could show a pass to gain access.
Further, the $280 fine some social media users have pointed to is related to a video Ovsyannikova posted online before the protest, not for her performance<\/a> during the live broadcast,\u00a0BBC reported. Media experts and news reports<\/a> indicate Ovsyannikova could face further prosecution and imprisonment under a new Russian law, which\u00a0punishes anyone who uses \u201cwar\u201d or \u201cinvasion\u201d to describe the conflict\u00a0with up to 15 years in prison<\/a>.
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Based on our research, we rate FALSE the claim that a protest during a Russian news broadcast was staged because “there are no live on-air television broadcasts in Russia.” Russian media experts\u00a0say news is broadcast live in the country and\u00a0that there is no evidence the protest was organized by the Kremlin. The protester gained access to the studio because she was a long-time employee with a badge.
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