Social media has become a propaganda tool.
(Photo: dpa)
Warsaw Anyone who opens the messenger service Telegram these days ends up in the middle of the Ukraine war. It is a dystopian world that unfolds before the novice, a world where buildings collapse under artillery fire, soldiers dance with bazookas and mutilated corpses lie in the streets.
Politicians cheer on the military, issue instructions to the population and warn of enemy maneuvers.
At a time when people are documenting everything on their smartphones, the information war between Ukraine and Russia is being waged on social networks – in front of hundreds of thousands of scrolling users in parallel worlds.
The lines are blurring between channels like that of the parliament in Kyiv and the pro-Ukrainian, broader news feed Real War, which alone has 823,000 subscribers. On the Moscow side, for example, the self-proclaimed war reporter Semyon Pegov, supported by RT, and the channel “Silowiki” with between 300,000 and 400,000 readers are fighting.
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