It started as a joke on the World Cup in Russia. It went very badly.

MOSKVA (Aftenposten): – We wanted to show that the news became more and more absurd, "says Boris Gontermacher to Aftenposten

He and the friends behind the Panorama site first laughed their fictitious humoristic stories as real news.

– Now it's just sad.

The website does not hide that everything is spelled and imagination.

Panorama presents itself as a 200-year-old website founded by a Monte Carlo editorial and journalistic experience taken from the infamous Gulag Stalin's clay

Yet, their tulle stories are presented as Real news from Russia

News # 1 "Stabilizing the condoms of World Cup fans."

A week ago, the satirists published a joke that "the staff of the Nizjnij Novgorod pharmacy was hitting condoms for football fans." . One more beautiful than the other. Slim, smart and athletic. Let them share their genes with us, "said the fictional pharmacy Ljudmila at Panorama.

The story was driven by the heated discussion of flirting between Russian women and foreign football fans.

"The news" went around Russia, according to a survey by the newspaper Meduza.

A number of the largest Russian media have presented the story as true, including Mk.ru, Komsomolskaja Pravda and Life.

False News No. 2: "Russian doping warnings attempted to kill themselves during the World Cup."

19. June published an article according to which the Russian driver Grigorij Rodtsjenkov had been hospitalized after an alleged suicide attempt.

The flagman was a traitor and the number one population in Russia, where doping charges are rejected. Western Propaganda.

The story was splendid.

Russia Today and the biggest Russian TV channels published the fake news, with the same source as Panorama.

False News No. 3. "Cossacks checks the mobile for fans of the world cup"

Before the World Championships Kremlin-funded Cossacks solved anti-Putin demonstrators with a whip in Moscow . Cossacks have been guarded in several world championships.

Panorama has made a history that Cossacks can also control the content of mobile phones for football fans.

This customs mystery also occurred in several major Russian media in Russia, according to Meduza. 4: "The Icelandic soccer enthusiast Sigurdflorbradsen"

"The Icelandic football fan Gundermurd Sigurdflorbradsen complains that the names of Russian cities were too complicated," said another humorous story of Panorama:

" Russia is too big, I do not understand why Russia needs so much land, there are so many cities with a lot of consonants in the name, "fictitious islanders complained.

The story was broadcast in more than 160 Russian media, including Lenta.ru, Russia Today, Moskovsky Komsomolets and the Russian Army Information Channel

Wisens the distinction between imagination and reality

The Russians say that they can no longer distinguish between lies and reality.

An important reason is that so many online media help each other without giving up a source.

The history of sabotage condoms was published in Russian mainstream media via the Bloknot press service, which did not indicate that the source was Panorama.

In many online media, reporters do 40-50 things a day.

Last month, the World Cup dominated all the news in Russia. At the same time, the police received clear orders not to publish negative news for consideration of the reputation of the World Cup Russia.

– In our day the real news is getting crazier and crazier than you can imagine. We decided to ridicule this trend, "said Gontermacher to Aftenposten.The name is a pseudonym and it needs anonymity.

In Russia, it is a long tradition of l & # 39; Soviet era to drive social criticism through political satire.The website is also inspired by American Onion.

– Could you please tell readers that their stories only spit?

– We have never hidden our websites that this is not a real news, says Gontermacher.The logo of the website indicates that the news service has existed since 1822, which is patently incorrect. [19659002Unfortunatelythiswasnotenoughformanyreaderssowemadeaseparatewarningsayingthatitwasonlyfictionandhumor

– Are these reporters so irresponsible that they never check them? otherwise, they do it consciously they know it's satire, "Gontermacher says.

– We hope that more of our top-level problems will make them more thoroughly verify what they publish.