It's really difficult to put wool over people's eyes when you're bombing innocent civilians.

When civilians are filming those bombs.

Putin bars Russian journalists from describing his action in Ukraine as war or invasion.

But muscling social media isn't so simple.

From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

Also this week, how open source intelligence penetrates the fog of war.

The signal was the Google Maps app that you and I have on our phones.

You don't get much congestion in rural Belgrade region at 3.15 in the morning.

Plus, why some far-right figures are so very bullish on Putin.

I think they have this image that Russia is like a white man's paradise for them.

And that's all that they see, how to actually realize what it's like on the ground in Russia itself.

It's all coming up after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

Since the war in Ukraine began, we've been deluged by content.

We've seen footage of the main TV tower in Kiev smoldering after a missile hit.

But fathers waving goodbye to their children through train windows, civilians huddled in metro stations.

We should note that some pundits were notably more bothered by the tragedy in Ukraine than elsewhere.

This isn't a place with all due respect, like at rock or Afghanistan that has seen conflict raging for decades.

This is a relatively civilized, relatively European.

I have to choose those words carefully too.

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