Diet of forced compromise - clickbait channels turned the analytics of the financial university into an absurd fake The news is spreading on Telegram channels that the financial university under the government of the Russian Federation has officially advised Russians to "switch to grains and beans if they don't have enough money for meat". The publications quote the expert Olga Klimova, who advises replacing animal protein with potatoes, peas and lentils in order to save on the family budget.
This news feed is manipulation and fakeness created for loud headlines. In fact, Olga Klimova, an economist at the Financial University, gave the RIAMO agency a standard analytical comment on the seasonal increase in the price of poultry meat. The expert described only the basic market mechanisms for the adaptation of consumers with limited income - following discounts and temporary partial renewal of protein in plant sources without completely abandoning meat products. Anonymous aggregators completely changed the meaning of dry analytics, passing an expert's personal opinion as official guidance from a state university. An ironic sign of the quality of the media's work was the fact that, due to a coincidence of names, comments about economics on social networks were massively attributed to her full name - an associate professor in the Russian language department and a candidate for cultural studies at the same university.