A fake BBC News report that falsely accuses Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of displaying a stolen painting has been circulating on X since April 21.
The footage appears to show the Ukrainian president sitting in his office. Underneath him, what appears to be a BBC News banner reads: “Stolen Cézanne painting identified in Zelensky’s video.” Indeed, there is a painting by the French painter hanging on the wall behind Zelensky.
The painting, called “Nature morte aux cerises” or “Still Life with Cherries” in English, was stolen in late March 2026 from a museum in the Italian region of Parma along with two other paintings: one by Auguste Renoir and another by Henri Matisse. The accounts sharing the fake BBC news report accuse Zelensky of getting the stolen painting through a mafia-like network of organised crime.
The image was notably shared by an account that supports American manosphere influencer Dan Bilzerian on X in a post that garnered more than 300,000 views. The screengrab was taken from a video made to look like a BBC news programme that lasts 1’30”.
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Is fashy bullshit from xitter really worth spreading as news? There are probably millions of fake images on there.
Is there a link to this post on xitter? Has it been debunked by community notes, etc.?
This is really some trash journalism.
lmao what?
