The echoes of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine still continue on social media. Many companies began to impose sanctions against Russia. In a statement made by Apple yesterday, it was announced that sales of Apple products in Russia had stopped and some services could not be used. After Electronic Arts sanctioned, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykhailo Federov made a call to all game and e-sports companies in the world.
Twitter also did not remain silent about this invasion and blocked its platform in Russia. Today, taking a new step, Twitter started to show a warning in the shares of Russian media channels.
Warning due to ‘risk of misinformation’
The Californian social media platform, just as it warned its users about channels that provided ‘false information’ during the pandemic, this time too. He began to warn about Russian media outlets. Authorities announced in their statement that since the beginning of the invasion, an average of 45 thousand tweets have been sent daily from Russian media outlets. Explaining that these tweets can cause ‘perception manipulation’ and information pollution on social media, and therefore they should warn users, the authorities offered this feature to its users today.
This system of Twitter matches the links shared by press organizations and users with news sites belonging to the Russian media and under these links “Be informed. This tweet is linked to a Russian website.” makes the warning appear.
Twitter also announced that Russian press organizations that share too much will hide some of their posts, thus aiming to prevent information pollution on the internet.
After this new sanction of Twitter, many Russian media outlets started to add links to platforms such as Telegram and VK in their posts.
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