evidence: The third pattern does not use a quotation but the name of an influential expert, embedding it in a fake story. This can be illustrated with a virally shared story about the Japanese scientist-immunologist, the Nobel Prize winner in physiology or medicine Tasuku Honjo, who was turned into one of the major ideologists of Covid-19 dissidence in Russia by fake story makers in April 2020 (5). According to a text widely shared on Russian social media, Honjo allegedly states that Covid-19 is an artificial virus that leaked from a Chinese laboratory. This false statement, which the scientist never made, exists in several variations with minor transformations. This example also demonstrates another distinguishing feature of fake materials which is frequent use of the first-person pronouns.