Comment l’Azerbaïdjan répand ses fake news

Every time Azerbaijan violates the ceasefire regime, it parallelly starts being active in Web domains. Of course, Azeris are not on their own in this, they have their own international support.

This is how it usually happens. They download a video from an Armenian profile using social media, political pages, personal profiles, and cultivate it according to their aim.

A typical example is an Azeri journalist, blogger Fuad Abasov. He montages videos of Armenian protests, by using international domains writes that Armenians are organizing demonstrations of resistance and don’t want to fight with Azerbaijan and that Armenians have around 100 deaths.

Of course, none of this is true. In most cases, they take videos of war shot in Afghanistan or Syria, change the voice and some details in the video and transform it in a way, so that people would assume, that’s happening in Armenia.

One should not trust or believe in every media and news page in the Armenian language, as they can possibly be managed by Azeris. For not giving in to the Azerbaijani propaganda, we should be extremely alert and follow the rules of web security.

You must be careful with links in social media as hackers break into your profile from the moment you click on some links. Especially, avoid domains ending with “az”.  Sharing videos or photos of Armenian soldier victims in tense situations is not a good idea, as that can be used against Armenia and be transformed into a message of victory for Azeris.

Non-verbal communication here is much more important than you think. If a soldier has a week posture or has his head down, that can be another reason for creating fake news about the soldier, let’s say, being disappointed or even weak.