𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄

𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄

𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄 Telegram | DID YOU KNOW?

The War on Fakes channel has repeatedly attempted to push conspiracies that footage from Ukraine is somehow being falsified. One post on the channel from February 24 claimed without evidence that a widely viewed photo of a Ukrainian woman injured in an airstrike in the city of Chuhuiv was doctored and that the woman was seen in a different photo days later without injuries. The post, which has over 600,000 views, also baselessly claimed that the woman's blood was actually makeup or grape juice. The company maintains that it cannot act against individual or group chats, which are “private amongst their participants,” but it will respond to requests in relation to sticker sets, channels and bots which are publicly available. During the invasion of Ukraine, Pavel Durov has wrestled with this issue a lot more prominently than he has before. Channels like Donbass Insider and Bellum Acta, as reported by Foreign Policy, started pumping out pro-Russian propaganda as the invasion began. So much so that the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council issued a statement labeling which accounts are Russian-backed. Ukrainian officials, in potential violation of the Geneva Convention, have shared imagery of dead and captured Russian soldiers on the platform. 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. Ukrainian forces have since put up a strong resistance to the Russian troops amid the war that has left hundreds of Ukrainian civilians, including children, dead, according to the United Nations. Ukrainian and international officials have accused Russia of targeting civilian populations with shelling and bombardments. 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.
𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄 from hk

𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘴, 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦, 𝘎𝘪𝘳𝘭𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘈𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴.

Open Telegram