this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2023
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False and misleading claims about the war in Ukraine are being widely shared.

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[–] AmidFuror@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those tweets are outrageous. I didn't scroll all the way through but wouldn't be shocked if there were blood libel accusations against Ukrainian Jewish people.

[–] Jaywarbs@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

There’s nothing specifically talking about Jewish people, but the post about “baby factories” is basically the same thing with different words.

[–] Madison_rogue@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

BBC Verify has traced it back to pro-Kremlin channels on the Telegram messaging app.

No one predicted that paying for verification would do something like this....

[–] needmorepto@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I looked for those tweets and cannot find them, the community notes features have been working. All I can find is the BBC reference

[–] LollerCorleone@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

BBC contacted Twitter regarding those tweets, so they were probably taken down after that. However, tweets with such blatant misinformation still keep getting posted and circulated in the hellhole.

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