



{"id":28585,"date":"2021-06-20T18:27:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-20T18:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media.am\/?p=28585"},"modified":"2021-06-22T18:37:34","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T18:37:34","slug":"fake-news-the-sponsor-of-pashinyans-daughters-toy-is-the-lgbt-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/verified\/2021\/06\/20\/28585\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake News: The Sponsor Of Pashinyan\u2019s Daughter\u2019s Toy Is The LGBT Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Verdict: fake news<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nikol.pashinyan\/videos\/499259811345578\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">went to<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> the polls today with family members, including his 6-year-old daughter Arpi. The child had a toy in her hands with rainbow colors. Facebook user Irina Danielyan <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=4031851930245809&amp;set=a.304117316352641\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">posted<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> a photo of Pashinyan&#8217;s daughter and commented that it is clear from the colors of the rainbow that the sponsor of this game is the LGBT community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This information is simple false news. In Arpi&#8217;s hands is simply one of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-lyoDyz62Ek&amp;ab_channel=%E2%9C%BFKidsDianaShow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pop It<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> anti-stress toys, which has been very popular among children lately.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-28555 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/media.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/arpi-pashinyan1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1788\" height=\"780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/arpi-pashinyan1.jpg 1788w, https:\/\/media.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/arpi-pashinyan1-300x131.jpg 300w, https:\/\/media.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/arpi-pashinyan1-1024x447.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/media.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/arpi-pashinyan1-768x335.jpg 768w, https:\/\/media.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/arpi-pashinyan1-1536x670.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1788px) 100vw, 1788px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Irina Danielyan, publishing the photo, wrote, &#8220;What is this, guiding the LGBT community or an open message to the EU?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Irna Danielyan&#8217;s post belongs to a series of conspiracy theories. It&#8217;s been an hour since the photo was published, but it has 12 shares and continues to spread, although some of them are of a humorous nature.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As already mentioned, in the child&#8217;s hand is a Pop It anti-stress toy, consisting of silicone cells. It has different colors and has nothing to do with LGBT symbols. Advertisements, life hackers, vloggers, etc. have filmed about it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28557\" src=\"http:\/\/media.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/pop-it.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"992\" height=\"679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/pop-it.jpg 992w, https:\/\/media.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/pop-it-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/media.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/pop-it-768x526.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 992px) 100vw, 992px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The identification of political forces with LGBT people through various false mechanisms is not new in the Armenian media field. Recently, Arthur Tovmasyan, a supporter of the &#8220;I have honor&#8221; bloc, wrote a similar post. He <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=818318472407308&amp;set=a.126862464886249&amp;type=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">posted<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on Facebook that during an event organized in the Republic Square on Children&#8217;s Day, the flag of the LGBT community was displayed, through which the RA Prime Minister is trying to gain the support of that community in the upcoming snap elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Media.am and factcheck.ge <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/media.am\/en\/verified\/2021\/06\/08\/28193\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">touched upon<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> this information. We found out that it was not about an LGBT flag, but about a rainbow shown during an animation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><b>Ophelia Simonyan<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This article was produced in partnership with <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/factcheck.ge\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">FactCheck<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and is part of Facebook\u2019s Fact-checking <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/business\/help\/2593586717571940?id=673052479947730&amp;helpref=faq_content\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Programme<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Given the rating, Facebook may impose different restrictions \u2013 click <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/journalismproject\/programs\/third-party-fact-checking\/how-it-works\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for full information. For information on issuing a correction or to dispute a rating, please see <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/factcheck.ge\/ka\/%E1%83%A8%E1%83%94%E1%83%A1%E1%83%AC%E1%83%9D%E1%83%A0%E1%83%94%E1%83%91%E1%83%90-%E1%83%A1%E1%83%90%E1%83%A9%E1%83%98%E1%83%95%E1%83%A0%E1%83%94%E1%83%91%E1%83%98\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verdict: fake news Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan went to the polls today with family members, including his 6-year-old daughter Arpi. The child had a toy in her hands with rainbow colors. Facebook user Irina Danielyan posted a photo of Pashinyan&#8217;s daughter and commented that it is clear from the colors of the rainbow that<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/verified\/2021\/06\/20\/28585\/\"> Read the full article&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-verified","author_posts-ophelia-simonyan-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28586,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28585\/revisions\/28586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}