False information about a non-existent auction of artefacts belonging to a Ukrainian Orthodox monastery is being circulated online by people who believe it to be real.
According to a public billboard seen in an image on social media, French auction house Osenat is planning an Oct. 1 event to sell off “treasures” from the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, a 980-year-old monastery in the Ukrainian capital.
The billboard uses the auction house’s logo, Orthodox imagery, and includes the date, time, and description of the alleged event.
Reuters also found that the billboard image is fabricated.
There is no record of such an event on the Osenat website and the auction house told Reuters it is false.
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