Big Tech vs. Ukraine's Local Media

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🗓️ 31 August 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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For most of the 20th century, during which time it was the control of a Moscow-based government for nearly 70 years, Ukraine didn't have an independent press. Over the past two decades, an ecosystem of independent press has grown in Ukraine. This Ukrainian press corps has been tirelessly covered the Russia's invasion of Ukraine over the past six months. But even as their audiences grow, funding from advertising for their reporting has dried up as Ukraine's economy struggles. Ukrainian media have also been subject content bans on Facebook for "glorifying violence" as they report on the war. Andrey Boborykin, Executive Director of Ukrainska Pravda, one of Ukraine's biggest independent outlets, speaks with Brooke about the ongoing information war between Ukraine and Russia, how big tech companies continue to platform Russian propaganda, and what local Ukrainian media outlets are doing to keep their doors open.

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0:00.0	This week the Ukrainian armed forces did what was long anticipated.
0:05.3	The Ukrainian counteroffensive is now underway.
0:08.3	Four villages already taken back from Russian control in the south.
0:12.2	There's heavy fighting right now in the area around Kyrsten, a crucial port city near the Black Sea.
0:17.1	This strike hit a key bridge in Kyrsten city, which is under Russian control.
0:21.8	We've tried to recapture this, the only regional capital that has been captured in the six months of war
0:27.1	and that remains in Russian hands.
0:29.9	Analysts call the battle for Kyrsten a game of bridges.
0:34.1	It's all documented on the homepage of Ukraine's Capravda, an independent news outlet in Ukraine.
0:40.4	There you learn that Ukraine's forces have taken control of two of those bridges,
0:45.0	Kakhovka and Antonivka.
0:47.7	The site also keeps a running tally of the quote, total approximate losses of the enemy.
0:53.3	On the day we recorded this podcast, day 189 of the war, Russian losses include 234 aircraft
1:01.3	over 1900 tanks, 15 ships and boats.
1:06.7	It's this kind of reporting by Ukrainians for both local and international audiences
1:12.0	that Andrei Boborikin says sets Ukraine's local media apart.
1:17.1	He's the executive director of Ukraine's Capravda,
1:21.0	one of Ukraine's biggest international outlets.
1:24.2	He's also a member of the Media Development Foundation, an organization helping Ukrainian media survive the war.
1:32.4	Meanwhile, he says Russian state news continues to be viewed by millions around the world,
1:38.2	supported to some degree by the social media platforms and the tech companies that we've come to know.
1:46.5	When the war started in Ukraine, Facebook and Google were quick to say that,
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