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FACT CHECK/ Euro 2024, misinformation campaign against Albanian and Romanian fans on Twitter!

2024-06-19 15:00:49Sport SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

FACT CHECK/ Euro 2024, misinformation campaign against Albanian and Romanian

The European football championship is the most important sports activity during this year, receiving a maximum attention of the audience in Europe and beyond, a situation that also serves as a catalyst for the distribution of false news.

In this article, we will focus on two established cases, in which false news received millions of views within a few hours on social networks.

A fake news from Sky News for Albanian fans

The physical clash between fans of England and Serbia a few hours before the match between the two football representatives of these countries in Gelsenkirchen, Germany as part of EURO2024 has become the cause of a large disinformation campaign on social networks to the detriment of Albanians.

In addition to the prestigious media, members of the government cabinet of Serbia have inadvertently or unintentionally become part of the campaign, who, contrary to what the German police said, as well as some of the Serbian fans involved in the clash, have accused the Albanian fans of the conflict.

As we will explain below through the facts and the response received from the Gelsenkirchen city police , it turns out that everything happened as a coordinated action between several profiles, initially on Twitter , misusing the "community quotes" option of the platform.

In the end, this case is worth as a test for Twitter itself to review the policies of community quotes as they have been misused in many cases to support disinformation.

But this was not the only case of manipulation on Twitter. Two days later, exactly on June 17, a few minutes before the match between Romania and Ukraine, a video of Romanian fans allegedly chanting Putin's name was widely shared on the Twitter social network.

From the verification of the facts, it turns out that we are dealing with a manipulated video by cutting a part of it.

In Gelsenkirchen, the English and the Serbs collided, there were no Albanians involved

A group of fans clashed physically on Arminstraß in the city of Gelsenkirchen around 15:30, resulting in physical injuries to at least six of them.

It was first the posts on social networks that told about the event. A group of Twitter profiles, apparently under the use of citizens from Serbia, reported that it was the Albanian fans who attacked the Serbs in the bar where the latter were sitting, despite the statements in the video of the fans stating that the attackers were in fact English (see the video).

Likewise, the Sky News network came out a few minutes later with a report emphasizing that it is a clash between Albanian and Serbian fans, thus confirming the Serbs' claims.

In another report a few minutes later, SkyNews again changed the news by emphasizing that it was actually English and Serbian fans who had collided on the "Arminstraß" road and not Albanians.

In a response via e-mail to journalist Emirjon Senja , Gelsenkirchen police officials confirm that there were no Albanian fans involved in the physical collision on June 16 on "Arminstraß" street. Police officials confirm that the physical fight took place between England and Serbia fans and that after the conflict, seven Serbian fans were escorted to the police.

In addition to the official confirmation from the Gelsenkirchen police, it is worth noting that the organized Albanian fan groups were not in this city, but in Dortmund, as it is a day after the match with Italy.

The disinformation posts were widely shared on Twitter by users originating from Serbia and Russia, including Serbian Deputy Sports Minister Uros Pribicevic, who also shared photos of 15 Albanians he said were arrested after the Gelsenkirchen clash.

In fact, it turns out that the Albanians in question were arrested in March 2023 for distributing narcotics in Leicester, Great Britain , and not in Germany.

The Romanian fans did not shout "Putin! Putin!” during the match with Ukraine

Another case where misinformation has found a large space on social networks comes from the Romania-Ukraine match within the framework of EURO2024. A large number of profiles, in a coordinated manner, first shared a video of Romanian fans in the stands with the note: "Romanian fans chant Putin's name in front of Ukraine ".

The video received millions of views in a few hours until it was revealed that it was actually a montage.

It turns out that the audio of the video was taken from another match in Ukraine where the fans chanted "Putin chu**no" (Putin head...).

The manipulated audio was then superimposed on the footage from the Romanian fans in the stadium where they were playing against Ukraine, leaving only the part “Putin! Putin!".

Despite the fact that several days have passed, disinformation posts about Albanians, as well as about Romanian fans, continue to be online, while Twitter has not taken any action so far. / visionplus


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