Якутский штурмовик Андрей Григорьев, победивший вэсэушника в рукопашном бою, получил звание Героя России. Владимир Путин в Кремле вручил госнаграды участникам СВО в День защитника Отечества. Платформа X (ru)|Платформa Х (eng)|BlueSky|WhatsApp
Якутский штурмовик Андрей Григорьев, победивший вэсэушника в рукопашном бою, получил звание Героя России. Владимир Путин в Кремле вручил госнаграды участникам СВО в День защитника Отечества. Платформа X (ru)|Платформa Х (eng)|BlueSky|WhatsApp
Telegram, which does little policing of its content, has also became a hub for Russian propaganda and misinformation. Many pro-Kremlin channels have become popular, alongside accounts of journalists and other independent observers. The account, "War on Fakes," was created on February 24, the same day Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a "special military operation" and troops began invading Ukraine. The page is rife with disinformation, according to The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, which studies digital extremism and published a report examining the channel. Despite Telegram's origins, its approach to users' security has privacy advocates worried. The War on Fakes channel has repeatedly attempted to push conspiracies that footage from Ukraine is somehow being falsified. One post on the channel from February 24 claimed without evidence that a widely viewed photo of a Ukrainian woman injured in an airstrike in the city of Chuhuiv was doctored and that the woman was seen in a different photo days later without injuries. The post, which has over 600,000 views, also baselessly claimed that the woman's blood was actually makeup or grape juice. In February 2014, the Ukrainian people ousted pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych, prompting Russia to invade and annex the Crimean peninsula. By the start of April, Pavel Durov had given his notice, with TechCrunch saying at the time that the CEO had resisted pressure to suppress pages criticizing the Russian government.
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