Russian Disinformation and Social Media in Ukraine, with Kateryna Kruk
Social Media and Politics
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Did Facebook Alert Us About Disinformation in Ukraine?
Was there any sort of warning of the tech companies or social media platforms themselves? I mean, we've heard about, for example, the genocide in Myanmar that there was contact with the platforms beforehand. Were the platforms alerted about this spread of disinformation in Maidan or Crimea? At the moment when it was taking place to the best of my knowledge, no,. first of all because for people who were in the center of events here in Ukraine, we also didn't understand the nature of the events that much.
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