🇸🇾🇺🇸⚠️BREAKING: The prisoner CNN helped free from a secret facility in Syria was allegedly Salama Mohammad Salama, a former first lieutenant in Syrian air force intelligence accused of committing war crimes, including torturing those who refused to pay bribes.
The footage of journalist Clarissa Ward leading the man to freedom went viral, with CNN describing it as “one of the most extraordinary moments” in Ward's career.
CNN later acknowledged, “We have been investigating his background and are aware that he may have given a false identity,” and stated they are continuing to look into the matter.
🇸🇾🇺🇸⚠️BREAKING: The prisoner CNN helped free from a secret facility in Syria was allegedly Salama Mohammad Salama, a former first lieutenant in Syrian air force intelligence accused of committing war crimes, including torturing those who refused to pay bribes.
The footage of journalist Clarissa Ward leading the man to freedom went viral, with CNN describing it as “one of the most extraordinary moments” in Ward's career.
CNN later acknowledged, “We have been investigating his background and are aware that he may have given a false identity,” and stated they are continuing to look into the matter.
Official government accounts have also spread fake fact checks. An official Twitter account for the Russia diplomatic mission in Geneva shared a fake debunking video claiming without evidence that "Western and Ukrainian media are creating thousands of fake news on Russia every day." The video, which has amassed almost 30,000 views, offered a "how-to" spot misinformation. Groups are also not fully encrypted, end-to-end. This includes private groups. Private groups cannot be seen by other Telegram users, but Telegram itself can see the groups and all of the communications that you have in them. All of the same risks and warnings about channels can be applied to groups. "He has to start being more proactive and to find a real solution to this situation, not stay in standby without interfering. It's a very irresponsible position from the owner of Telegram," she said. "We as Ukrainians believe that the truth is on our side, whether it's truth that you're proclaiming about the war and everything else, why would you want to hide it?," he said. 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.
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