Who Copies Whom

What the graph shows

One distribution point at the top

Pul Pervogo, the press-pool channel around the head of the regime, publishes before BelTA, SB, CTV, ONT, BTRC and Azarenok. SB carries the same text a median 1 minute later, BelTA 1 minute, Azarenok 3 minutes. This is simultaneous distribution from one source, not reprinting.

The agency feeds television

BelTA’s texts reach ONT a median 9 minutes later (1,943 shared texts) and CTV 16 minutes later (2,343).

Several channels, one operator

The Zheltye Slivy channels publish the same text in the same minute in 96–99% of cases, over thousands of texts: autoposting. The map shows the network as one node; otherwise it would look like a choir of independent voices.

The entry point for Russian content

@nikitin73 forwards Russian state and military sources, Sputnik (877) and Zvezda (675) among them, mixed with Zheltye Slivy (911), and copies NEWS.BY and Nevolfovich about 80 minutes later.

Russian Sputnik and Belarusian Sputnik

Sputnik Belarus forwarded Russian Sputnik 656 times in January–August. Both belong to the same Russian state group, Rossiya Segodnya.

The security vertical

MVD press service → OMON, median 11 minutes; exact publication times settle the direction.

Case: the campaign against EHU

On 14 April, the day the Supreme Court declared the European Humanities University “extremist”, BelTA and ONT posted at 14:37; 8 channels followed within the hour, 18 by midnight.

Belarusian state media and bodies ministries and security agencies named propagandists anonymous pro-regime channels Russian state media and bodies pro-Kremlin channels, Russia and the Baltics distribution hub dashed: class under review, not named colour: who speaks · shape: what it is