Almost two years ago, in 2012, the Internet exploded from the shocking news: "Died Gorbachev!" The first President of the Soviet Union (or even the last and only) "buried" with honors.
News hotly debated.Some have argued that it is not so much tragedy stood undergoing heart, while others hinted that the death was someone else's order.And some quips: "Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev died with the Soviet Union ..." This, of course, was the death of the weight and significance of man as a politician.In general, people were at a loss ...
How little bird?
false rumors that he died Gorbachev, began their "flight" of the well-known social network called "Twitter".The original source of the gossip was not the Russian sector, as stated earlier, and the English language.It is difficult to say whose hands (or rather computers) case.Most fans and analysts are inclined to think that the news was spread Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, and in perfect English.Of course, the account from which stated that died Gorbachev, proved false, and the Prime Minister about gossip and not heard.Moreover, the English-language sector of the famous "Wikipedia" on the page itself, which was dedicated to Gorbachev, supplemented with the appropriate corrections to the day of death.
According tiled data Gorbachev died in 2012, May 22 ... News "stayed there" only seven minutes.However, that was enough.But running rumor spread through websites, blogs, social networks all with the same lightning speed.Moreover, it has become one of the most discussed.Hashtag «Gorbachev» became a real global trend.
By the way, the phrase "Is it true that Gorbachev died?" Typed in the search engines so far - the former president of the Soviet Union in the past two years, "buried" at least four times.Each time information is "duck".We dare to assure the readers: Now Mikhail is alive and well.
Who is to blame?
Involuntarily comes to mind is one phrase: "What?" I guess the question asked myself bored Italian journalist named Tomasso Debeneditti.It occurred to him suddenly the idea of creating create fake account."The German minister" was thus an Italian journalist known by the way, fans of this kind of jokes.
Tomasso Debeneditti frankly: the creation of false accounts of world leaders was held to launch disinformation to deceive the media and make them once again to publish unverified information (simply lie).It's hard to even imagine what it was guided by an Italian, because he himself - a journalist.
And what Gorbachev speaks of his funeral?
Of course, he was surprised to such rumors.However, pay tribute, Gorbachev reacted to the news with a certain humor.He said that "thanks" to such media "died" several times.Another news of his own death caught Gorbachev at the clinic, where they spent the next scheduled inspection.At the moment, the health of the former president's health and does not cause any concern.
