[WhiskeyOutpost]

Originally Posted by Faust ↗

I think they mean that in the US if you were to openly answer “how many biological genders exist?” with anything other than the Biden-administration approved-science, people would make sure you lose your job which could mean that you cannot pay your mortgage and most companies would not hire you anymore. or if you accidentally say a forbidden word then people will fire you as well

That is not the same as a real dictatorship but if we are talking Russia and Ukraine, both are on the same level with Ukraine being worse for ethnicities other than Ukrainian and Russia being worse for people in the LGBT communities, especially if they want to talk to kids in schools

That has to be the greatest Faustism I've seen in months

[Faust]

People circle jerk each other over posts like

“if you say anything bad about putin then you go to jail, for real!”

Yet at the same time they post the equivalent of

“Lol look at this guy on russian tv totally disrespecting putin and the military operation, putin is done!!”.

Freedom of speech in the US is linked to “freedom to lose your job and mortgage and or ability to pay for medical care”.

[Guns N' Coffee]

[Roosta]

Originally Posted by WonderMomma ↗

"Another group of Russian mobiks are begging the Kremlin Ripper to help in the situation they ended up in: put on the first line to defend against relentless Ukrainian attacks with no artillery support or ammunition."

English subs.

Easy, Walk Away when you get an opportunity or surrender.

[Roosta]

Originally Posted by WhiskeyOutpost ↗

That has to be the greatest Faustism I've seen in months

Dented shit from guess who

Faust, You really need a reality check.

[xennex]

Originally Posted by Faust ↗

People circle jerk each other over posts like

“if you say anything bad about putin then you go to jail, for real!”

Yet at the same time they post the equivalent of

“Lol look at this guy on russian tv totally disrespecting putin and the military operation, putin is done!!”.

Freedom of speech in the US is linked to “freedom to lose your job and mortgage and or ability to pay for medical care”.

Ahh yes, "freedom is slavery" and all that.

[Guns N' Coffee]

“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength”

[WonderMomma]

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66113460

Twitter Blue accounts fuel Ukraine War misinformation
8 July 2023

False and misleading posts about the Ukraine conflict continue to go viral on major social media platforms, as Russia's invasion of the country extends beyond 500 days.

Some of the most widely shared examples can be found on Twitter, posted by subscribers with a blue tick, who pay for their content to be promoted to other users.

Weapons for Ukraine not used in French riots

Many misleading posts have been shared online about the recent riots in France, but one viral post last week focused on US military aid to Ukraine.

It featured a screenshot of what appeared to be a headline from a news website, along with an image of two rifles.

"French police are fired upon with American rifles that may have come from Ukraine," reads the headline.


Several Twitter accounts with Blue subscriptions have shared the post, which has been viewed more than a million times.

BBC Verify has traced it back to pro-Kremlin channels on the Telegram messaging app. The image used in the post appears in a Russian military blog from 2012 about a shooting competition held on a firing range near Moscow.

We have also been unable to find any online articles with the headline and picture as above, and there is no evidence any weapons provided to Ukraine by the US have been used during the recent unrest in France.

No evidence of 'baby factories' in Ukraine

Several Twitter accounts with a blue tick have recently promoted a claim that Russia has discovered "baby factories" in Ukraine.

Children between the ages of two and seven are said to be "factory farmed", and either sent to "child sex brothels" or to have their organs harvested and sold in the West.


BBC Verify has traced the origin of the claim to an article published in March by The People's Voice, an alternative name for YourNewsWire, which has been described by fact-checking organisations as one of the biggest producers of fake news on the internet.

It has previously promoted a wide range of false and misleading stories, including anti-vaccine conspiracy theories and false claims about the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas.

The Russian government and Kremlin-controlled media have a history of promoting unsubstantiated claims about illegal organ harvesting in Ukraine.

Kramatorsk missile not Ukrainian

A Russian missile attack killed eight people in the centre of Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine, at the end of June.

In the immediate aftermath of the attack, a post by an account with a Twitter Blue subscription, which positions itself as a legitimate news source, claimed the strike was mistakenly launched by Ukraine and hit a military barracks housing Nato troops and foreign mercenaries.



"Storm Shadow missile suddenly changed trajectory dramatically, hitting Kramatorsk obliterated a Ukrainian military barracks housing foreign soldiers and mercenaries," the tweet claimed.

The post was viewed more than a million times.

There is no evidence that a missile launched by Ukrainian forces was responsible, nor that a military barracks was hit.

Zelensky has not cancelled elections

Posts claiming Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has "cancelled" elections in Ukraine have recently gone viral on Twitter.

As evidence, users cited remarks made by Mr Zelensky in an interview with the BBC in late June.

Asked whether there will be elections in Ukraine next year, Mr Zelensky responded: "If we win [the war], there will be. It means there will be no martial law, no war. Elections must be held in peacetime, when there is no war, according to the law."

Commenting on the statement, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who's been critical of US aid for Ukraine, said in his recently launched Twitter show that Mr Zelensky's comments proved he'd ended democracy in Ukraine.

Twitter Blue accounts on a similar theme have been shared hundreds of thousands of times.



The Ukrainian constitution prohibits the dissolution of parliament and national elections during martial law, meaning the current president and parliament will remain in charge until the period of martial law comes to an end.

Oleksii Danilov, secretary of Ukraine's national security and defence council, recently confirmed that based on the Ukrainian constitution, "no elections can take place" while martial law is in effect in the country.

Contacted by BBC Verify for a response to the false and misleading Twitter Blue posts highlighted in this article, Twitter's press office acknowledged receipt of our enquiry, but declined to comment.

[Faust]

Originally Posted by WonderMomma ↗

Twitter Blue accounts fuel Ukraine War misinformation

Also twitter gray

[WhiskeyOutpost]

Originally Posted by Guns N' Coffee ↗

“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength”

George Orwell was a wise man.