Disclosure of false news about Algeria's qualification for the 2022 World Cup.. What is the relationship of the Russian president!

Patrice Motsepe and Putin.

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After the match between Algeria and Cameroon in the decisive role qualifying for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, a group of exciting false news spread, circulated by accounts on social networking sites and some news sites about the decision to replay the match as a result of the arbitrary injustice suffered by the "Desert Warriors" team. ".

The match ended with the victory of Cameroon in the total of the “home and away” matches after Algeria won the first leg 1-0, to return Cameroon with the same result, then the two teams resorted to two additional periods, during which Algeria scored the qualifying goal, then the shock came when Cameroon scored a goal in the last second of the second overtime period. , and snatched the qualification card to Qatar.

This incident was very influential for the Algerian public, who was a guarantor of qualification by more than 90% through the result of the first leg and the strong performance of their country’s team. However, football this time decided to speak its exciting language, to extract “groans and heartbreaks” from the audience, which led to the spread of a group of The news, which later turned out to be false, was revealed by Google's platform that tracks fake news.

Three fake news were widely circulated, as follows:

Algeria's appeal accepted

A subtitled video was circulated for the president of the Confederation of African Football, South African Patrice Motsebe, announcing the acceptance of Algeria's appeal and the official qualification of the "Desert Warriors" team to the World Cup.

And it turned out that the circulated video is old, dating back to January 22, 2022, in which he talks about the results of the African play-off draw, expressing his hope that the African teams will achieve good results in the World Cup, and the statement was distorted when translated into Arabic.

The Algerian Chief of Staff

circulated on websites recently attributed to the Chief of Staff of the Algerian Army, Lieutenant-General Said Chanegriha, about the Gambian referee Bakari Gassama, and he says that what the referee did in the match between Algeria and Cameroon will not go unpunished.

It turned out that the Algerian army chief of staff did not make such a statement.

Russian President Vladimir Putin

has circulated a statement by Russian President Vladimir Putin that he is upset with FIFA because of the exclusion of the Russian national team from the World Cup, as well as the conspiracy against the Algerian national team.

The statement also stated that Putin knew that the Algerian national team had exited the World Cup with an effective action, because Algeria is an ally of Russia, and that he would respond to FIFA by holding a mini-world championship to coincide with the World Cup in Qatar.

It turned out that Putin did not make any statements in this regard, and nothing of the kind was found in the official channels, especially on the Russian RT channel, about which the false news was reported.

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