« Quand il y a eu le Bataclan, il y a eu une marche contre l’islamophobie, les petites bougies. Derrière il y a des communicants pour nous faire digérer toute cette actualité. Mais ce n’est pas eux qui font la réalité »
« Quand il y a eu le Bataclan, il y a eu une marche contre l’islamophobie, les petites bougies. Derrière il y a des communicants pour nous faire digérer toute cette actualité. Mais ce n’est pas eux qui font la réalité »
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. 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. Just days after Russia invaded Ukraine, Durov wrote that Telegram was "increasingly becoming a source of unverified information," and he worried about the app being used to "incite ethnic hatred." This provided opportunity to their linked entities to offload their shares at higher prices and make significant profits at the cost of unsuspecting retail investors. Either way, Durov says that he withdrew his resignation but that he was ousted from his company anyway. Subsequently, control of the company was reportedly handed to oligarchs Alisher Usmanov and Igor Sechin, both allegedly close associates of Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
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