False and misleading claims about the war in Ukraine are being widely shared.

  • AmidFuror@kbin.social
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    1 年前

    Those tweets are outrageous. I didn’t scroll all the way through but wouldn’t be shocked if there were blood libel accusations against Ukrainian Jewish people.

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      1 年前

      There’s nothing specifically talking about Jewish people, but the post about “baby factories” is basically the same thing with different words.

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    1 年前

    BBC Verify has traced it back to pro-Kremlin channels on the Telegram messaging app.

    No one predicted that paying for verification would do something like this…

  • needmorepto@kbin.social
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    1 年前

    I looked for those tweets and cannot find them, the community notes features have been working. All I can find is the BBC reference

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      1 年前

      BBC contacted Twitter regarding those tweets, so they were probably taken down after that. However, tweets with such blatant misinformation still keep getting posted and circulated in the hellhole.