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Russian trolls are the talk of the town once again after a congressional investigation revealed the magnitude their fake social media accounts managed to fool us all. 。
SEE ALSO:Russian trolls pushed the California and Texas secession movements。But what happens when the official account of the Russian ministry of defence tweets a fake picture of a military operation?
This morning, mod_russia tweeted in Russian, English and Arabic a series of drone combat pictures to accuse the U.S. of cooperation with the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria. 。
"The Ministry of Defence shows irrefutable evidence that
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are actually covering ISIS combat units to recover their combat capabilities, redeploy, and use them to promote American interests in Middle East," it said in the tweet. 。
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This is from YouTube's development preview of the game, from 2015: 。Credit: screengrab/youtube/Byte Conveyor Studios。 And this is the image used by Russia, specific with location and date. The description reads: "The ISIS convoy, coming out of Abu-Kamal near the Syria-Iraq border. (Photo created November 9, 2017)" 。
Credit: mod_russia/twitter 。
The picture went viral on social media Nov. 5 after it was tweeted by AnuSharmaUdh and debunked by Christiaan Triebert at 。
The picture went viral on social media Nov. 5 after it was tweeted by AnuSharmaUdh and debunked by Christiaan Triebert at 。Bellingcat: 。 Tweet may have been deleted 。Another drone image tweeted by mod_russia allegedly shows Isis automobile convoy leaving Abu Kamal for the Syrian-Iraqi border on November 9, 2017: 。
Credit: MOD_RUSSIA/TWITTER 。But as the Conflict Intelligence Team notes on Twitter, the screenshot is actually from a June 2016 。
Russia Today 。
video from Iraq's ministry of defence showing the Iraqi Air Force bombing ISIS near Fallujah: 。