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#Ukraine
Mar 8 2022 10:15AM: 576.6K followers
Mar 9 2022 12:06AM: 708.3K followers
Member list includes affiliates of Carnegie, Stanford's CISAC, Brookings, CSIS, Harvard, Chatham House, Human Rights Watch, CEPA, FT, BBC, Guardian, Atlantic Council, Reuters, The Economist, Washington Post, Globe & Mail, Buzzfeed, NPR, Global Voices, Liveuamap, First Draft, etc.
Mar 12, 2022: 1.1 million following 55 accounts curated by Twitter.
Batch 1 of 3 (12 screenshots in total).
Starting w/ 1st chosen (Lokot: affiliated w/ School of Communication, Ireland & Global Voices) & MacDonald ("New Voice of #Ukraine" which joined Twitter Jan 22, 2022).
Batch 2 of 3.
#Euromaidan Press: launched in 2014 (coup) as part of a Ukraine/#USAID media project. A registered NGO, funders include IRF, created by OSF/George Soros via #NED.
Make note of Illia Ponomarenko from "The Kyiv Independent" (which joined Twitter Nov 2021).
Batch 2 of 3.
Notables include #Ukraine Forum out of Chatham House (2nd most influential think tank in world) - & "Official Twitter account of the World Health Organization in Ukraine".
(Both launched in 2015 following 2014 US/Nazi coup of democratically elected govt). #WHO
Illia Ponomarenko from "The #Kyiv Independent" (which joined Twitter Nov 2021).
#AZOVNAZIS
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#Propaganda - in real time.
The manufacturing of hate - via the "Twitter Moments" curated list of "experts and on-the-ground sources".
Purpose (#PR firm) calls this "New Power" – "The ability to harness the connected crowd to get what you want"
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