Scandal with “The Voice. Children” commented the counter company

The St. Petersburg firm "SMS Services", which was involved in counting the votes of viewers in the final of the show "Voice.Children", for the first time commented on the scandal surrounding the voting in the project.

The company said that the votes of viewers were real, and there were no DDoS or other hacker attacks during the voting. All SMS Services statistics were handed over to Group-IB, which helps Channel One investigate possible vote fraud.

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• "SMS services" processed all calls and SMS messages from viewers, which they sent on the air of the program. Each phone number from which a vote for a particular participant was sent was recorded in the technical logs of the platform. These are real people, the company claims.
• Calls and SMS messages were received from Russian telecom operators - PJSC MegaFon, Mobile Telesystems, VimpelCom, Rostelecom and others.
• At the time of voting, the platform was not subjected to DDOS or other hacker attacks.
• The company handed over a detailed report and voting statistics to Channel One and Group-IB, which is helping the TV channel investigate possible vote fraud.

Context

• Alleged vote-rigging for the winner of one of the most popular shows on Russian television, Voice of Children, became the hottest topic of the weekend on social media. The victory in the final was won by ten-year-old Mikella Abramova, the daughter of singer Alsu and businessman Yan Abramov (she scored 56.5%), but later it turned out that Channel One was checking the voting results, as "some anomalies were noticed by the operator."
• participated in the final In addition to daughter Alsou, Yerzhan Maxim and Valery Kuzakov , and the sympathy of the audience, judging by the sharp reaction in social networks, was on their side.
• The fact that Channel One will check whether the voting in the final of the Voice.Children show on April 26 was moderated in favor of one of the participants was first reported by RBC .
• On April 27, Channel One took off the air the documentary film The Voice: On the Highest Note, which always comes out the day after the final and was announced in the channel's advertisement, TASS . reported
• Producer Iosif Prigozhin told RIA Novosti that he considers the voting results to be erroneous. Maxim Galkin wrote about the same on his Instagram .