The misinformation war in Ukraine
Post Reports
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 13 April 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Today on “Post Reports,” the battle over misinformation on Facebook in Ukraine. Plus, how TikTok has created an alternative universe, just for Russia.
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In Ukraine, Facebook fact-checkers are fighting a war on two fronts: racing to debunk propaganda about the war while also trying to survive it. Naomi Nix reports.
With Russia cracking down on social media, the Chinese-owned company TikTok has managed to stay online there by banning all new content, even as loopholes let Russian propaganda through. Will Oremus says this basically means there’s a special, censored TikTok just for users in Russia.
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| 0:44.0 | So, when we started to see these news reports, that Russia was retreating from Bucho, which |
| 0:52.4 | is this suburb near Kiev. |
| 0:55.9 | We started to see images emerge from the destruction that was left behind. |
| 1:01.1 | Naomi next covers social media companies for the post. |
| 1:04.2 | And she remembers seeing a video taken in Bucho from the front seat of a car. |
| 1:09.6 | And it was just surveying all of the damage. |
| 1:13.0 | The car was driving up the road. |
| 1:16.3 | Bodies. |
| 1:17.3 | People still wearing their winter coats were scattered along the road. |
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