It is true that a brawl took place at a hotel in Turkey involving Poles and Russians. However, by adding a manipulated caption to the photograph, Russian propaganda turned the incident into an alleged act of Russophobia.
Dr Marta Więckiewicz-Archacka from UWM’s Department of Journalism discusses this and other examples of fake news circulating online. She is the author of Blog in the Perspective of Multimedia Genology and editor of the journal Media – Culture – Social Communication.
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