Affiliated media: Channel One Eurasia, TV channel

Incident date: November 30, 2022

Attack type:

• Defamation, spreading libel about a media worker or media outlet

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Zakon.kz

Location: Kazakhstan, Pavlodar Province, Ekibastuz

Additional information:

Some anonymous Telegram channels are spreading fakes that journalists of Channel One Eurasia are filming «staged» reports about allegedly free heaters distribution in Ekibastuz, where there was an accident in the heating network on the night of November 27. The press service of Channel One Eurasia commented on this information: «Journalists of Channel One Eurasia, as well as journalists of other TV channels, were really near this house and were shooting a story, but about something completely different. And by the time the video distributed on social networks was shot, the channel’s film crew had already left the scene long ago. Channel One Eurasia reports: the cameraman, whom the author of the video calls «Eurasia journalist», has a camera hanging on his shoulder. «Our cameramen do not work with cameras, and film from a special tripod, which is exactly what this man does not have», — the press service said.