Rahmat Wibowo accused Marchel Andrian Shevchenko of being 'strongly suspected' of fraud, on the day of Marchel's online talk, and tagged three local news accounts of Magelang to spread it, again attaching the 'says he's doing a PhD at MIT, but hasn't finished his bachelor's' thumbnail built from Marchel's student record, and the poster of the talk.
| ID | ev-20261108-004 |
|---|---|
| Source | Rahmat Wibowo Threads |
| Modus operandi | Fake Narratives Manipulation of Public Opinion Swarming |
| Targets | Marchel Shevchenko |
Transcript
[Threads post — rweebs21 › Dating Apps, 1/5]
meta.ai tolong ini si Marchel Andrian Shevchenko dikasih paham beliau ini
dugaan kiat nipu masa belum lulus s1 di Universitas Teknologi Yogyakarta
udah bilang kuliah S3 di MIT @magelangku.id @magelang_news @magelangku_
@laporkanrahmatwibowo
(meta.ai, please make this Marchel Andrian Shevchenko understand: he is
strongly suspected of fraud. How can he not have finished his bachelor's
at Universitas Teknologi Yogyakarta and already say he is doing a PhD at
MIT?)
[Attached 1: the thumbnail with the MIT logo and dome, a photo of Marchel
and his record on PDDikti ("MARCHEL ANDRIAN SHEVCHENKO — Universitas
Teknologi Yogyakarta — Sarjana - Informatika — Tanggal Masuk 22 September
2020 — NIM … — Status Terakhir Mahasiswa Non-Aktif 2025/2026 Genap"):
"Klaim: 'Bisa kuliah S3 di MIT (Ranking 1 dunia)' — FAKE? — [KATANYA]
KULIAH S3 DI MIT, [PADAH]AL BELUM LULUS S1!"]
[Attached 2: the poster "Danantara Indonesia — AI Connect — AI
Introductory — The Founders' Trinity – Be The Hacker: Make It Work —
Speaker: Marchel Andrian Shevchenko, Founder of Data Sorcerers — Minggu
08 Nov 2026, 13.00 - 15.00 WIB — Online by Zoom"]
Commentary
What he posted
He posted it at about 10:01 WIB on 8 November 2026, in the “Dating Apps” community, as the first of five posts. He asked Meta AI to “make Marchel Andrian Shevchenko understand” that he is “strongly suspected of fraud”, since he “has not finished his bachelor’s at Universitas Teknologi Yogyakarta and already says he is doing a PhD at MIT”, and tagged three local news accounts of Magelang. He attached his thumbnail “says he’s doing a PhD at MIT, but hasn’t finished his bachelor’s”, built from Marchel’s student record, and the poster of Marchel’s online talk that afternoon.
Context
He had promoted the same accusation for days, tagging the talk’s organisers and MIT (ev-20261104-003), and boasted that “we managed to expose” Marchel (ev-20261106-001). Later that day he mocked Marchel’s unfinished degree and was removed from the talk’s WhatsApp group after telling attendees they had been fooled (ev-20261108-005, ev-20261108-007).
Observations