🇸🇾🇸🇾Syrian Observatory of Human Rights - Security chaos | Unidentified gunmen impersonating military unit execute young man in Manbij city in eastern Aleppo countryside
Aleppo province: An armed group impersonating a military unit stormed a house near a school in Manbij city in eastern Aleppo countryside, which is controlled by “ Dawn of Freedom” operations room. The group arrested a young man, took him to Al-Jazirah road and executed him with several gunshots, before fleeing to an unknown destination.
This coincided with a state of panic and resentment among residents amid the ongoing security chaos in the area.
🇸🇾🇸🇾Syrian Observatory of Human Rights - Security chaos | Unidentified gunmen impersonating military unit execute young man in Manbij city in eastern Aleppo countryside
Aleppo province: An armed group impersonating a military unit stormed a house near a school in Manbij city in eastern Aleppo countryside, which is controlled by “ Dawn of Freedom” operations room. The group arrested a young man, took him to Al-Jazirah road and executed him with several gunshots, before fleeing to an unknown destination.
This coincided with a state of panic and resentment among residents amid the ongoing security chaos in the area.
The channel appears to be part of the broader information war that has developed following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The Kremlin has paid Russian TikTok influencers to push propaganda, according to a Vice News investigation, while ProPublica found that fake Russian fact check videos had been viewed over a million times on Telegram. It is unclear who runs the account, although Russia's official Ministry of Foreign Affairs Twitter account promoted the Telegram channel on Saturday and claimed it was operated by "a group of experts & journalists." DFR Lab sent the image through Microsoft Azure's Face Verification program and found that it was "highly unlikely" that the person in the second photo was the same as the first woman. The fact-checker Logically AI also found the claim to be false. The woman, Olena Kurilo, was also captured in a video after the airstrike and shown to have the injuries. In addition, Telegram's architecture limits the ability to slow the spread of false information: the lack of a central public feed, and the fact that comments are easily disabled in channels, reduce the space for public pushback. On February 27th, Durov posted that Channels were becoming a source of unverified information and that the company lacks the ability to check on their veracity. He urged users to be mistrustful of the things shared on Channels, and initially threatened to block the feature in the countries involved for the length of the war, saying that he didn’t want Telegram to be used to aggravate conflict or incite ethnic hatred. He did, however, walk back this plan when it became clear that they had also become a vital communications tool for Ukrainian officials and citizens to help coordinate their resistance and evacuations.
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