Meanings
- derogatoryuncountableMedia or news reporting which highlights extreme violence in a gratuitous or sensationalized manner.
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One of the most memorable pieces of fake news during Russia's 2014 invasion of Ukraine was the "crucified boy of Slavyansk," a canard designed by Russian state-controlled media to whip Russians into a nationalist frenzy by the sheer enormity of the alleged crime. The gist of it was that Ukrainian forces, after retaking Slavyansk from pro-Russian militants in July 2014, supposedly subjected the town's inhabitants to vicious retribution, including the public execution of a 3-year-old boy in front of his mother. It was a perfect piece of atrocity porn.
2022 February 2, Alexey Kovalev, “Russian State Media Aren't Preparing for War”, in Foreign Policy, Washington, D.C.: Foreign Policy LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2022
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