Did Vogue magazine publish an article on March 21, 2025, with the headline "Disney Confirms Russian Troll Farms At Heart of Bad Snow White Opening Weekend"? No, that's not true: a fake screenshot shared online was the result of digital manipulation, and used a different Vogue article as its basis. The fake screenshot attributed the invented headline to a non-existent author.
The fake screenshot appeared in a March 25, 2025, post on X (archived here), along with the caption "LOL."
Here's what it looked like at the time of writing:
(Source: X screenshot taken on Wed Mar 26 12:08:38 2025 UTC)
The fake screenshot appears to have originated in a March 25, 2025, thread on the 4chan /pol/ forum, a notorious source of disinformation:
(Source: 4chan screenshot taken on Wed Mar 26 12:26:41 2025 UTC)
In the fake screenshot, the author of the article was purported to be "Abraham Kohen."
On March 26, 2025, Lead Stories searched the Vogue website for the phrases "Disney confirms Russian troll farms" (archived here) and "Abraham Kohen" (archived here), using the Google "site:vogue.com" operator. Those searches yielded no relevant results.
Vogue did publish an article (archived here) about the movie "Snow White", and using a still from it, on March 21, 2025, but its author was Emma Specter and its headline was "79 Thoughts I Had While Watching the New Snow White":
(Source: Vogue.com screenshot taken on Wed Mar 26 12:41:55 UTC)
