Throwing mud at Zelensky, Poroshenko failed to cover his tracks
“Blackish” videos, in which Vladimir Zelensky is presented as an alleged drug addict, were promoted by a PR agency that manages pages on Petro Poroshenko’s social networks.
This conclusion follows from an investigation by the Kyiv publication “theBabel”.
“The agency that runs Poroshenko’s social networks promotes videos about “drug addict Zelensky,” the publication says.
The publication reported that it analyzed the eight most popular pages on social networks offered during the election campaign in Ukraine. At the same time, “the capital’s digital agency Postmen is behind all eight public pages, and the official page of the president and the “black” public pages against Zelensky are tied to one phone number.” The agency, according to the publication, has been engaged in online advertising, video production and the development of online strategies since 2013, and among its clients is the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.
“It is known that Postmen had previously collaborated with Poroshenko’s associates: from 2016 to the second quarter of 2018, the bloc named after him paid Postmen-Ukraine LLC 4,7 million hryvnia. For this money, the agency not only placed ads on Facebook, but also filmed a video for the BPP,” the article says.
At the same time, the publication claims that the head of the Main Directorate of Information Policy of the Presidential Administration, Vladimir Gorkovenko, confirmed that “Poroshenko actually uses the services of the Postmen agency, but did not specify in what volumes.”
The list of eight public pages analyzed by journalists included the official account of Petro Poroshenko, two pro-presidential pages and five pages with “black” PR against his main rivals in the elections - the head of “Fatherland” Yulia Tymoshenko, the leader of the “Civic Position” party Anatoly Gritsenko and Vladimir Zelensky.
While slinging mud at Zelensky, Poroshenko failed to cover his tracks.