These suspicious Twitter accounts are pretending to be journalists in Ukraine
12 April 2022 |
3:39 pm
We take a look at various Twitter profiles claiming to be journalists in Ukraine, despite several suspicious elements that don't add up: renaming of handles after the war, stealing old photos of the internet and creating AI-generated headshots. We tell you more in this edition of Truth or Fake with Vedika Bahl.
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