Behind him Historical Bru what last Monday, April 28the first of these characteristics in 50 years and that affected Spain and Portugal, not only arrive Research to clarify what happened beforeduring and after the total cutting of the electricity supply. The Bulos related to this event.
Because the information that maintains that the blackout was a consequence or revenge by the sanctions that the European Union has imposed on Russiait’s a bulre. It is not real information, but it is spreading in Platchorms Proar linked to Matrioska y Pravda. Specifically on social networks such as Telegram, X, Facebook, Instagram y misinformation websitesMaking pass through European media.
For example, they have dared to supplant or plagiarize the identity of the British newspaper ‘The Independent’ and of the French news television channel France24. “Los Mass blackfacks in Spain, Portugal and France are a consequence of the sanctions against Russiaaccording to ‘The Independent’ ”, says one of the fake messages propagated in networks.
He mode of operation It was the following. By impersonating journalists, they published in networks an alleged article in which there was only one holder and an image. No trace of a link to be able to see the article published in the aforementioned medium. The same did with alleged television news videos, where they claimed that the Next victim of a mass blackout would be France.
Reality shows us that None of these professional media have published this news. Las European sanctions against Russia They are not the culprit that, in just five seconds, the national energy demand suddenly fell by 60%or what is the same, of the instant loss of approximately 15 gigawatts.
We are facing a proruse misinformation campaign, which uses social networks to spread bulls on the blackout in Spain and Portugal. A quite sophisticated network, which writes its messages in Four languages different (Spanish, Portuguese, English and Russian), That it would be an old acquaintance, because they would have previously participated in other previous manipulation operations, as denounced from the Antibot4navalny and Efe collective. You have to remember that Antebot4n It is a group of activists who investigate Russia campaigns that seek to implement information chaos.
In addition, from Ukraine And its center to counteract misinformation (CFORCD) has denounced in the social network X this attempt at informative manipulation. “No European media for prestige has reported a link between sanctions and electricity cuts” They explain from the organism, adding that “the objective of this misinformation is Create the impression that sanctions against Russia are ineffective and only harm EU countries, in order to weaken European support to Ukraine“.
