The @ukrainiansquad account, followed by many, is "dubious", at least.
They deleted all of their old tweets when they started targeting Ukraine.
How did we find the old handle and deleted tweets?
We'll show you in this #vatniksoup (sorry @P_Kallioniemi ) like thread:
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The account used to be named 2bb Saif (@ LandNorway) and posted about Palestine and anti-Israel topics. In Arab and English.
In Twitter Search we typed the following query:
"to:urkainiansquad until:2021-12-31"
The results show the replies to his deleted tweets.
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Using the Share icon, we copied the link of that reply.
Then we searched for that link on .
Not all links are archived, but we got lucky:
As you can see, this is the same tweet.
3/ web.archive.org
Now we can see the original handle: @ LandNorway.
We also can see the deleted tweet:
No doubt about it: 2bb Saif = Ukrainiansquad.
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@ukrainiansquad, or should we say 2BB Saif, pretended to be Ukrainian, from Kiev, fighting in the war (all this info is recorded, so no denying there).
He also stole pictures and videos from Ukrainian soldiers and watermarked them as his own.
So beware!
Our call: scam.
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5/5
@ukrainiansquad And of course: Kyiv. My bad, Dutch spelling slip. Sorry for that.
Addendum: I did a deeper dive into and found some more "stuff":
archive.org
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