Russia: Fake recorded appeal of Navalny's mother to his wife Yulia appeared

Sta social media A fake recorded appeal by Ludmila Navalny, the mother of the slain Russian opposition leader, has emerged Alexei Navalny, who died on February 16 in the “Polar Wolf” prison colony, the Russian website Meduza writes today.

The recorded appeal begins with the phrase “Dear Yulia Borisovna Ambrosimova, I now want to address you, and ends with the words: “I despise you and forbid you to speak on behalf of my son, my child».

According to the said website, this recorded appeal was found by the director of the news verification website “Provereno” Ilya Ber.

Burr believes, writes Meduza, that the recording was created with the help of a neural network. “At the same time, the voice is very similar to Ludmila Navalnaya's voice heard from afar, as there was nothing to learn on this neural network“, Burr points out. In his opinion, the fake recording was created based on a video in which Navalnaya demands that Russian President Vladimir Putin give her the body of her dead son.

The first posts with this fake recording appeared on the morning of February 22nd. As Ber writes, at 8:29 a.m. Moscow time, the recorded appeal was posted by the Signal Telegram channel, which has an audience of 500,000 people., which claimed that “an appeal by Alexei Navalny's mother to his wife appeared in the media. The fake recorded appeal on the said channel was seen by more than 165 thousand followers.

Ilya Ber claims that this Telegram channel belongs to “Kristina Potulchik's propaganda network, which is financed by the company Dialog” with money from state funds through the Russian presidency.

Following the fake recorded appeal, they began rebroadcasting a channel and websites supporting the Russian invasion of Ukraine as well as some Russian websites. Navalny's mother Ludmila and his wife Yulia Navalnaya have so far not commented on the fake recorded appeal.