The Mother of All Fake News

How a windowless room in the basement of the Capitol was set up to look like a fake congressional hearing.

Watchers of Ukraine’s NewsOne television channel on September 25 were treated to what was suggested to be a congressional hearing in Washington about corruption in the National Bank of Ukraine (the NBU), which is the Ukrainian equivalent of the Federal Reserve Board.

The event, which took place in the basement of the U.S. Capitol, Room HC 8, wasbilled by the Ukrainian television channel as a meeting of the “US Congressional Committee on Financial Issues.” NewsOne teased it this way:

The highest levels of corruption in the NBU are known by the US Congressional Committee on Financial Issues.

Only thanks to the systematic work of the team that collected evidence of corruptions of the most important officials of the National Bank, the strongest of the world will find out about it.

Shocking details and resonant details—live streaming on NewsOne! Turn on at 21:00—live from Washington DC

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