War on Truth: 2. Maxim: Homeless and Trolled
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BBC
2.8 • 947 Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
When social media star Maxim was shelled out of his home, he didn’t expect to be called a liar by some of his followers. But did the hostility come from real people - or automated accounts?
As the battle for Ukraine rages, another conflict is being fought in parallel – an information war. And like the conflict on the ground, this fight also has real consequences for the people whose lives it touches.
Russia’s military assault has been accompanied by an onslaught of disinformation and propaganda from state media, trolls and influencers. With all sides seeking to capture and control the narrative, how do you tell what is fake and what is real?
In this podcast series, BBC disinformation reporter Marianna Spring investigates stories from Ukraine, Russia, and around the world, and hears from those caught up in the battle for the truth.
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| 0:06.2 | indecision, analysis, paralysis. |
| 0:09.4 | Don't panic. |
| 0:10.4 | The Martin Lewis podcast is twice weekly, helping you navigate our complex consumer world. |
| 0:15.2 | I'll walk you through a big money saving topic step by step. |
| 0:18.4 | Then in question time, you set the agenda and ask whatever's on your mind. |
| 0:22.5 | Would you rather be locked in an empty shopping center with a thousand snakes or just one gorilla? |
| 0:27.6 | Within reason. |
| 0:28.6 | The Martin Lewis podcast, listen on BBC Sounds. |
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| 0:38.1 | Excellent. Hello. Great. |
| 0:40.2 | Thank you. |
| 0:41.4 | Meet Maxim. |
| 0:44.5 | For the past two years, the 25-year-old has been in Buccia, just outside of Kiev. |
| 0:49.5 | Once we're finally connected, we speak in Russian, because he says he couldn't convey |
| 0:53.8 | in English the |
| 0:54.6 | pain and horror of what happened to the small town where he lived. |
| 0:59.0 | There were bodies in the streets and it's difficult to understand what's happening. |
| 1:03.1 | It feels like we're in the universe of a Marvel movie. |
| 1:06.1 | On the first day of the Russian invasion, his apartment block was shelled. |
| 1:10.6 | It's so hard because I had to leave my home. My things were left there. I hope. day of the Russian invasion, his apartment block was shelled. |
| 1:15.8 | It's so hard because I had to leave my home. My things were left there. My whole soul was left in that house. Now homeless and sleeping in an air raid shelter, he decided to flee to the west |
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