"وكم من أعرابيٍّ نظر إلى أسارير وجه رسول الله ﷺ، وإلى حُسن كلامه، ولطف شمائله وأخلاقه، فآمن به وصدَّقه تصديقًا جازمًا لم يخالجه ريبٌ، من غير مطالبة بمعجزة يقيمها وذكر وجه دلالتها".
"وكم من أعرابيٍّ نظر إلى أسارير وجه رسول الله ﷺ، وإلى حُسن كلامه، ولطف شمائله وأخلاقه، فآمن به وصدَّقه تصديقًا جازمًا لم يخالجه ريبٌ، من غير مطالبة بمعجزة يقيمها وذكر وجه دلالتها".
WhatsApp, a rival messaging platform, introduced some measures to counter disinformation when Covid-19 was first sweeping the world. Emerson Brooking, a disinformation expert at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, said: "Back in the Wild West period of content moderation, like 2014 or 2015, maybe they could have gotten away with it, but it stands in marked contrast with how other companies run themselves today." 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. Andrey, a Russian entrepreneur living in Brazil who, fearing retaliation, asked that NPR not use his last name, said Telegram has become one of the few places Russians can access independent news about the war. Some people used the platform to organize ahead of the storming of the U.S. Capitol in January 2021, and last month Senator Mark Warner sent a letter to Durov urging him to curb Russian information operations on Telegram.
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