



{"id":27845,"date":"2021-05-12T10:41:32","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T10:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media.am\/?p=27845"},"modified":"2021-05-14T11:08:38","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T11:08:38","slug":"fake-facebook-account-accused-an-observer-of-being-an-azerbaijani-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/verified\/2021\/05\/12\/27845\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake Facebook Account Accused An Observer Of Being An &#8220;Azerbaijani Agent&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The user &#8220;Margarita Garcia&#8221; posted in the late evening of May 11 that screenshots were being spread on Azerbaijani Telegram channels. These screenshots allegedly proved that Anton Ivchenko, one of the coordinators of the &#8220;Independent Observer&#8221; bloc, passed videos and other information to the Azerbaijani side for money. The user then added, &#8220;later we found out that this person is leading observers, who are supposed to monitor the elections to make sure they are not rigged.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As it turns out, the screenshots were fake.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The post was no longer available hours later<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;Margarita Garcia&#8217;s&#8221; post was no longer available hours later. The images attached to the post showed that Anton Ivchenko, one of the coordinators of the &#8220;Independent Observer&#8221; bloc, sent videos of the murder and torture of Azerbaijani servicemen with the participation of servicemen of the RA Armed Forces and demanded the money for them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This post has been shared 90 times. In the comments of the post, the author urges not to share the content, but to upload the pictures on their pages, because &#8220;they are sending spam to my page, it may be closed.&#8221; She urged users to spread the images in different groups.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The author of the post shared the same content in the comments of the &#8220;Independent Observer&#8221; Facebook page.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-27786 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/media.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ivchenko-fake-story1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"833\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ivchenko-fake-story1.jpg 833w, https:\/\/media.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ivchenko-fake-story1-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/media.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ivchenko-fake-story1-768x434.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 833px) 100vw, 833px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This same image <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=3923009991139619&amp;set=p.3923009991139619&amp;type=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">has been sent<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to different users through other accounts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-27788 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/media.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ivchenko-fake-story2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"955\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ivchenko-fake-story2.jpg 635w, https:\/\/media.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ivchenko-fake-story2-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Margarita Garcia&#8217;s account is no longer available, so there is no <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/margarita.garcia.mendozza\/posts\/3913238882093607\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">post<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. However, according to the available data, we managed to find out that she mentioned 9 accounts on the post.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-27790 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/media.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ivchenko-fake-story3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2497\" height=\"2084\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ivchenko-fake-story3.png 2497w, https:\/\/media.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ivchenko-fake-story3-300x250.png 300w, https:\/\/media.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ivchenko-fake-story3-1024x855.png 1024w, https:\/\/media.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ivchenko-fake-story3-768x641.png 768w, https:\/\/media.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ivchenko-fake-story3-1536x1282.png 1536w, https:\/\/media.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ivchenko-fake-story3-2048x1709.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2497px) 100vw, 2497px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Among the mentioned are:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The fake account &#8220;Gagik Soghomonyan,&#8221; which caused a stir at the beginning of 2021, as in order to reveal the real owner, a number of opposition figures and politicians with a past in power <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/hetq.am\/hy\/article\/127694\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">were arrested<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and even <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azatutyun.am\/a\/31114387.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">imprisoned<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">newspress.am founder Ariana Hovsepyan, who was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aravot.am\/2016\/12\/24\/840150\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">found guilty<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of falsely accusing of treason in 2016, and <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/media.am\/en\/verified\/2020\/07\/01\/22456\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">described<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> a photo session which was taking place in Yerevan in 2020 as having a political emphasis as &#8220;propaganda&#8221; of homosexuality.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The other mentioned pages and personal accounts either have not published anything for several years or distribute oppositional content.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The distributed content is not real: There are traces proving this<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anton Ivchenko <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/anton.ivchenko\/posts\/10226937619486660\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">touched upon<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> the news about him in a Facebook post. He said that the &#8220;fake account&#8221; spreads &#8220;screenshots of an unknown origin,&#8221; in which there is a copy of his Facebook account. &#8220;One is a fake Anton, the other is an unknown Azerbaijani agent,&#8221; he wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the comments of his post, users checked the facts, which showed that the pictures were not real.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Media.am verified these allegations and confirms the following:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1\u2024 The messages in the Facebook social network messenger are left and right. The right alignment in the published messages is violated, which is a sign of editing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-27792 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/media.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ivchenko-fake-story4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ivchenko-fake-story4.png 960w, https:\/\/media.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ivchenko-fake-story4-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/media.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ivchenko-fake-story4-768x450.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In addition, there are <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.techroid.fakechat&amp;hl=en&amp;gl=US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">applications<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that allow you to create chats similar to different messengers. With them, it is possible to send and receive messages on behalf of any person, with any image, at any time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2\u2024 The messages show the day of the week of sending the messages in Azerbaijani, which, despite the change of dates, is always the same day &#8211; Wednesday (\u00e7r\u015f &#8211; \u00e7ar\u015famba). In fact, June 11, 2020 was Thursday, July 11 was Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-27794 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/media.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ivchenko-fake-story5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ivchenko-fake-story5.png 960w, https:\/\/media.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ivchenko-fake-story5-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/media.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ivchenko-fake-story5-768x450.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">3\u2024 The correspondence started on June 11, 2020, and the reply was sent a month later, on the same day. But during this period there were no border incidents. The battles of Tavush in 2020 started on July 12, and the second Artsakh war on September 27.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anton Ivchenko also drew attention to language in his post: His first language was Russian, so it was difficult for him to offer his services and demand money in the &#8220;ignorant and unrefined Russian&#8221; as in the correspondence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In his post, Ivchenko also insisted that this campaign is not against him, but against the &#8220;Independent Observer&#8221; bloc. He is one of the coordinators of this alliance. According to him, the dissemination of this false content is done to discredit the observation before the special parliamentary elections of 2021. He also stated that he was reporting a crime of false accusations of treason.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><b>Arshaluys Barseghyan<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The user &#8220;Margarita Garcia&#8221; posted in the late evening of May 11 that screenshots were being spread on Azerbaijani Telegram channels. These screenshots allegedly proved that Anton Ivchenko, one of the coordinators of the &#8220;Independent Observer&#8221; bloc, passed videos and other information to the Azerbaijani side for money. 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