Digital Desk: As Kremlin-linked sites are accused of disseminating misinformation about Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, Twitter will place warnings on messages containing links to Russian state-affiliated media, the social networking site announced on February 28.
Reportedly, pressure is being put on social media giants to remove any inaccurate or erroneous material about the attack, which has sparked outrage throughout the world.
As per reports, Kremlin-controlled media outlets RT and Sputnik have been accused of fabricating stories to justify war.
Twitter’s head of site integrity, Yoel Roth, said that the platform had received more than 45,000 tweets each day with links to state-affiliated news outlets.
“Our product should make it simple to figure out who’s behind the stuff you’re seeing, as well as their motivations and intents,” he said.
“The platform is also taking steps to drastically decrease the dissemination of this content on Twitter, in addition to adding labels that identify the sources of connections,” he added.
The announcement came a day after Facebook’s parent, Meta, stated pro-Russian groups were spreading misinformation campaigns on social media using fake profiles or hacked accounts to portray Ukraine as a hapless pawn of Western deception.
The cyber security team of the tech giant, which also owns Instagram, claimed it had blocked a group of Russia-linked bogus accounts that were part of a social media campaign to destabilize Ukraine.
Reportedly, people in Ukraine were targeted by a tiny network of Facebook and Instagram accounts, which used posts-old to persuade them to click websites with false information regarding the country’s efforts to protect itself against Russian invasion.
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