Twitter, Facebook And Telegram Still Allow Russian Conspiracy Theory About Ukraine … – Forbes

Ukrainian emergency employees and volunteers carry an injured pregnant woman from a maternity hospital that was damaged by shelling. The woman and her baby died after Russia bombed the maternity hospital where she was meant to give birth. ASSOCIATED PRESS Russian authorities have woven a web of false information across social media about their forces’ attack on a Ukrainian hospital last week even after earlier attempts by the platforms to halt this disinformation campaign. Nearly 20 Twitter, Facebook and Telegram accounts belonging to Russian embassies have dispensed the disinformation, which seeks to discredit news reports that Russia shelled the Mariupol hospital and its maternity ward, killing two adults and a child and injuring 17. The incident has drawn rebukes from the White House and other Western leaders, while Ukrainian President Zelensky called it an “atrocity.” A photo of a pregnant woman carried away from the rubble on a stretcher has been shared widely on social media—it appears above—and has quickly becoming one of the most dramatic images from the Russian invasion into Ukraine. She and her baby both later died. The Russian embassy in Britain last Thursday published several tweets in the past week about the hospital falsely claiming the…
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