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Russian military equipment, including BM-27 220mm rocket launchers, have been spotted in #Belarus near #Minsk and in #Gomel and #Rechitsa, north of #Kiev and within range of #Ukraine’s border. @Michael1Sheldon’s latest report on #Russia's build up 🧵👇
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@Michael1Sheldon Belarusian media reported that the military hardware arrived for “Allied Resolve” joint exercises. Regardless, the developments are concerning given their timing, scale, and origin. See the map below for the equipment's movement: Image
A Russian convoy arrived to Gomel with multiple rocket launcher and transporter-loader vehicles. In the footage, 11 transporter and a single BM-27 multiple rocket launcher are visible, along with support vehicles. Video showed the equipment headed toward the Ukrainian border. ImageImageImage
#OSINT imagery also showed a column of 19 military vehicles parked near a road that leads to Rechitsa. The column appeared to consist primarily of logistical vehicles. BM-27 launchers also appeared at Rechitsa’s train station. ImageImage
Russian equipment was also spotted in the #Minsk region on January 17, including a train carrying BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicles. One day prior, a video of the same train was uploaded to @tiktok_us. @DFRLab geolocated the footage to the town of Ishim, nearly 3,000 km away. ImageImage
@tiktok_us Last week, @Michael1Sheldon reported on this equipment’s movement from #Russia’s far-east. The movement, from as far as Russia’s eastern border, is an escalation in their previous build up over the last several months, now effectively surrounding #Ukraine.medium.com/dfrlab/missile…
@tiktok_us @Michael1Sheldon Read the rest of @Michael1Sheldon’s reporting on Russian military equipment’s presence along #Ukraine’s northern border with #Belarus. medium.com/dfrlab/russian…
UPDATE: In this thread's first tweet, we used the spelling "Kiev" rather than "Kyiv." We apologize for any confusion or concerns this may have caused. -@DFRLab

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Jan 20
Today @StateDept released a report and factsheet on #Kremlin-funded media and how it uses #disinformation and #propaganda to support their foreign policy objectives. The pieces cite @DFRLab’s research into #Russia’s media ecosystem. 🧵⬇️ state.gov/disarming-disi…
@StateDept The factsheet breaks down #Russia’s top five persistent #disinformation narratives as they relate to their justification for action in and around #Ukraine. See the five here or below: state.gov/russias-top-fi…
@StateDept 1. #Russia is an Innocent Victim

Russia's gov. regularly, and falsely, portrays Russia as a victim and that requires a “force response” to the United States and its democratic allies. “Russophobia” was used, in part, to justify its annexation of #Crimea. medium.com/dfrlab/putinat…
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Sep 3, 2021
The Proud Americans Patriot Network (PAPN) presents as a mundane conservative nonprofit with 501c4 registration. But its digital history ties it to the the Three Percenters movement and unlawful militias online. From @jaredlholt 🧵👇: medium.com/dfrlab/pennsyl…
At first glance, the PAPN seems like any other conservative advocacy organization centered on religious freedom, private property rights, and #2A. They solicit financial sponsorship, have a scholarship essay contest, and endorse local candidates.
However, a closer look at the group turned up clear links to the Three Percenter anti-government movement and found supporters attempting to recruit militia supporters nationwide. At one point, the group was selling several items with Three Percenter logos.
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@jaredlholt @avaniyadav_ The first 3 deal w/ how militia groups are organizing online. In the fallout of #January6th, many groups are splintering, dissolving, & regrouping at a smaller scale - including rebranding & using @Facebook to attract users before migrating to alternative platforms like @telegram
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Sep 17, 2020
As fires rage across the western United States, doctored social media posts have gone viral primarily blaming leftist group #Antifa for setting fires forcing local authorities to divert resources to debunk these instances of #disinformation. medium.com/dfrlab/inauthe…
Mass reporting by locals has hampered coordination of relief efforts. Local law enforcement throughout the affected areas has taken to social media to urge the public to rely on official sources for information, and to refrain from sharing unverified rumors.
Several conservative Facebook groups and pages shared a screengrab of an alleged #antifa Twitter account, @ScarsdaleAntifa, who claimed that they had started the fires. Evidence suggests this is an inauthentic account created by a 4chan user to troll or confuse antifa supporters.
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Mar 2, 2020
NEW: Facebook has removed more than 1,700 assets linked to two Egyptian digital marketing firms targeting audiences in Middle East and North Africa. Here's our EXCLUSIVE look at the assets that were deleted. medium.com/dfrlab/faceboo…
These assets were linked to two marketing firms, NewWaves and Flexell, that were at the center of two separate purges in August and October 2019, respectively.
The DFRLab corroborated the link to NewWaves but was unable to corroborate any direct connection to Flexell.
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Feb 4, 2020
Over the past three years, the DFRLab has published extensively on political disinformation online. Today, we are happy to announce the “Dichotomies of Disinformation,” a project made possible by @Jigsaw to codify the many #disinformation campaigns we have reported on.
The project can be found in its totality on the DFRLab’s GitHub page: github.com/DFRLab/Dichoto…
As part of @Jigsaw's first ever publication of #theCurrent, data from the Dichotomies of Disinformation has been incorporated in their data visualization: jigsaw.google.com/the-current/di…
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