Thread by @emeriticus

The Snake Island story was fake, the Ghost of Kyiv was fake, the photos of Zelensky in body armor were fake (they're old pictures being circulated as new ones)

Ukraine-Russia is World War Reddit

Zelensky is still in Ukraine, so that's good, but many people have already matched the viral images of him in kit on the "front lines" with older ones from a while ago before the conflicted started

You have to be skeptical of every sensational meme and breaking news story

The only really insane pro-Russian psyop I've seen appears to show Avoz units hurting civilians, but it looks so staged that it's hard to believe that it's not just Russians pretending to be Ukrainians

Another example: there is a 99.9% chance that's an airsoft rifle and I'm pretty sure this is from an older photo op

Here's another one that went viral because it suggested the Chechens had surrendered without a fight

Afterward, this journalist added a third tweet that added the missing context. Who is the audience for this?

I'm pointing this out because much of it seems geared toward getting Americans involved. There is a legitimate reason to be skeptical of these things and anyone who tells you that being so makes you pro-Putin by default is either an idiot or acting in bad faith

Here is an account with 500K followers posting *video game footage* as evidence of Ukraine shooting down Russian aircraft

The account is dedicated to fighting Russian propaganda

https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1497717073983770634?t=jz5RHIPP_OY3rz-zFf-9rQ&s=19

Ukrainian Snake Island soldier reacts to learning that he and his comrades have been declared dead

Had a friend do a translation and he said the same

The Snake Island story is fake, and it has been used to gin up pro-war sentiment here

https://twitter.com/ASBMilitary/status/1497901723716923392?t=Hghd7-Npmi5lw-bnLfu0mw&s=19

Another one: this isn't even in Ukraine and it's nearly a decade old

https://twitter.com/frnews_ng/status/1497840712821329923?t=cg73hhiXxsil3iDD1QK_Og&s=19