🇸🇾 - A jihadist holed up in the crusader castle and world heritage site Krak des Chevaliers, firing HMGs mounted on a technical towards the Christian towns Anaz/Hwash, claiming they are targeting Shabiha (Assadist militant) positions in May 2013 during the Syrian civil war.
Naturally they'd say they're targeting military positions to save face in international media, but the number of murdered & injured civilians spoke for itself.
🇸🇾 - A jihadist holed up in the crusader castle and world heritage site Krak des Chevaliers, firing HMGs mounted on a technical towards the Christian towns Anaz/Hwash, claiming they are targeting Shabiha (Assadist militant) positions in May 2013 during the Syrian civil war.
Naturally they'd say they're targeting military positions to save face in international media, but the number of murdered & injured civilians spoke for itself.
Multiple pro-Kremlin media figures circulated the post's false claims, including prominent Russian journalist Vladimir Soloviev and the state-controlled Russian outlet RT, according to the DFR Lab's report. Unlike Silicon Valley giants such as Facebook and Twitter, which run very public anti-disinformation programs, Brooking said: "Telegram is famously lax or absent in its content moderation policy." The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 230 points, or 0.7%. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 1.3% and 2.2%, respectively. All three indexes began the day with gains before selling off. 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. Right now the digital security needs of Russians and Ukrainians are very different, and they lead to very different caveats about how to mitigate the risks associated with using Telegram. For Ukrainians in Ukraine, whose physical safety is at risk because they are in a war zone, digital security is probably not their highest priority. They may value access to news and communication with their loved ones over making sure that all of their communications are encrypted in such a manner that they are indecipherable to Telegram, its employees, or governments with court orders.
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