{"id":1400335,"date":"2022-03-25T12:01:38","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T16:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1400335"},"modified":"2022-03-25T12:01:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T16:01:47","slug":"fact-check-did-cnn-publish-this-tweet-about-a-ukrainian-hotel-that-was-destroyed-by-russian-bombers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-cnn-publish-this-tweet-about-a-ukrainian-hotel-that-was-destroyed-by-russian-bombers\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did CNN Publish This Tweet About A Ukrainian Hotel That Was Destroyed By Russian Bombers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-did-cnn-publish-this-tweet-about-a-ukrainian-hotel-that-was-destroyed-by-russian-bombers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1400335&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/ToMjA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> allegedly shows a tweet from CNN about a famous hotel in Ukraine that was destroyed by Russian bombers.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A CNN spokesperson stated the tweet was not real. The screengrab has been digitally fabricated.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ukraine has suffered at least $100 billion in infrastructure damage since Russia\u2019s invasion of the country began, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2022\/03\/1114022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.N<\/a>. report. In the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol, about 80 percent of residential infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed, the charity <a href=\"https:\/\/www.directrelief.org\/2022\/03\/analyzing-the-scale-of-ukraines-destruction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Direct Relief<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>The Facebook post appears to show a tweet from CNN highlighting the destruction. The alleged tweet includes an image of a large building in ruins with a caption that states, \u201cThese are the remains of the once famous ukrainian resort hotel Peace after the air attack from russian bombers #StandingWithUkraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHotel Peace? No, this is the Zvonachka-Banya resort in Serbia,\u201d reads the Facebook post\u2019s caption. \u201cCNN and the other networks are using recycled war photos to sell the war to its cadre of zombies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A reverse image search traced the photo of the ruined hotel to a 2010 <a href=\"https:\/\/boogiephoto.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/hotel-mir-zvonacka-banja.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blog post<\/a>, which identified it as Hotel Mir, also known as <a href=\"https:\/\/banjeusrbiji.com\/zvonacka-banja\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zvonacka Banja<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Zvonacka+Spa,+Serbia\/@42.9378513,22.5761484,14z\/data=!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x47554f4b83480c19:0x2aae93199c9dc3bc!2sZvonacka+Spa,+Serbia!3b1!8m2!3d42.9326964!4d22.6012268!3m4!1s0x47554f4b83480c19:0x2aae93199c9dc3bc!8m2!3d42.9326964!4d22.6012268\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">located<\/a> in Svonce, Serbia. Video of the abandoned building can be seen in a July 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T9lWVz1ryT4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> video by user Bloo Planet.<\/p>\n<p>However, the screengrab of the CNN tweet is digitally fabricated. While the network has extensively <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/europe\/live-news\/ukraine-russia-putin-news-03-25-22\/h_6e94c34c3d3174dc60f92e8e0cc0a0b3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">covered<\/a> the conflict, there is no evidence it published such a tweet. There is no record of it on the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=ukraine%20hotel%20(from%3Acnn)&#038;src=typed_query&#038;f=top\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">network\u2019s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=ukraine%20hotel%20(from%3Acnnbrk)&#038;src=typed_query\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=ukraine%20hotel%20(from%3Acnni)&#038;src=typed_query&#038;f=top\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pages<\/a>, nor on <a href=\"http:\/\/web-old.archive.org\/web\/20220325002634\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/cnni\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">web<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/web-old.archive.org\/web\/20220323073756\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/cnnbrk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">archives<\/a> of those pages.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged tweet is also not formatted correctly. The image featured in the post does not have rounded edges like those from legitimate <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNN\/media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweets<\/a> found on the network\u2019s account.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis photo\/tweet is fabricated and not real,\u201d Bridget Leininger, a spokesperson for CNN, told Check Your Fact in an email. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/03\/10\/fact-check-cnn-boradcast-kyiv-explosion-seven-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Did CNN Air A 7-Year-Old Image Of An Explosion In Its Coverage Of The War In Ukraine?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time CNN has been the target of fabricated tweets surrounding the conflict in Ukraine. Check Your Fact recently <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/03\/02\/fact-check-cnn-tweet-ukraine-afghanistan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">debunked<\/a> a series of fabricated tweets from the network about the same man being killed in Afghanistan and Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook allegedly shows a tweet from CNN about a famous hotel in Ukraine that was destroyed by Russian bombers.Verdict: False A CNN spokesperson stated the tweet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1400335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1400335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1400335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}