But the vigilante attacks on "manspreaders" — men who spread their legs wide in public places — was outed last week "as a staged piece of Russian government propaganda," the
New York Post reports.
The video was first posted to Kremlin-backed, English language site "In The Now" — owned by Russia Today (RT) — but as the clip spread, "online skeptics began to question its authenticity."
One of the men featured in the video revealed in an interview with Russian-language online magazine Bumaga that he was an actor paid to appear in the clip.
Several other men in the clip have since come forward to say that they too were paid actors, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Fake news debunking site EU vs Disinformation suggested the video was intended to stir up anti-feminist sentiment.
One man, Stanislav Kudrin, said on a Russian social media site that the video was a production. “They poured water on us. Plus I slept in the hood too. Naturally, staged. That feeling when you come to the shooting with two spare pants and leave with a salary,” he wrote.
"TASS talked to the St Petersburg subway and the police where spokespersons said that no complaints or reports about such incidents had been registered, and that, in their view, the video was probably staged,"
EU vs Disinformation reported.
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