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Month: March 2022

Russia: Its reputation is destroyed for years or decades to come

Russia: Its reputation is destroyed for years or decades to come

A Russian athlete appears at a sports competition wearing the “Z” symbol and flaunts it in front of a Ukrainian athlete. While many of us want to believe Russia’s cruel invasion of Ukraine is due to Putin alone, this behavior implies the Russian people themselves are awful. Behaviors like this have long term repercussions. It will be years – decades – if ever – for Russia to restore the rest of the world’s perspective to where it had been just weeks ago.

Twitter bans accounts that promoted #IStandWithPutin 

Twitter bans accounts that promoted #IStandWithPutin 

Twitter has banned accounts that appear to have been coordinated, likely bots, to get the #IStandWithPutin tag to “trend” on Twitter.

I now ignore most war-related content on social media. There is far too much spin, exaggeration, inaccurate, out of context and out of date information being shared. Now is the time to rely on professionals – even when they also use social media sources – because they do usually to verify the information.

TikTok blocks Russians from live streaming on TikTok

TikTok blocks Russians from live streaming on TikTok

TikTok blocks Russians from live streaming on TikTok due to Russia passing a law that criminalizes “fake news” – which is determined by the Russian government as pretty much anything that they disagree with or which makes Russia look bad, even if true.

Now is a great time to not get news from social media

Now is a great time to not get news from social media

Be extremely cautious about anything your read, see, or hear on social media about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, even from what might initially sound like an authoritative source like a YT channel labeled something like “US Defense News”. These channels are created by individuals, who re-package public domain footage, often with a synthesized narration voice over. They are not authoritative, and in the fog of war, should be treated as fake news.