Thread by @risj_oxford

🤳Today's thread looks at how social media and influencers are being used in war.
1️⃣Russian TikTok influencers are being enrolled and paid to "promote a pro-Russian message about Putin’s invasion of Ukraine," reveals @daithaigilbert:
vice.com/en/article/epx…

2️⃣“I would consider myself a White House correspondent for Gen Z,” says 18-year-old TikTok Ellie Zeiler, one of 30 such influencers briefed by the White House about the war in Ukraine, reports @TaylorLorenz
washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

3️⃣A new study by the @ShorensteinCtr finds TikTok "presents a unique challenge for viewers attempting to decipher fact from fiction" through how videos can be easily reposted w/out attribution, ease of image manipulation, and hard-to-find metadata.
mediamanipulation.org/research/tikto…

4️⃣There's been a "sea change" in social media platforms' response to the war "but without real regulations and without companies crafting and consistently following policies of their own we can only expect more confusion" @aprilaser @BostonJoan @jruddock__
theguardian.com/media/2022/mar…

5️⃣"It is essential to use as much as possible fragments of broadcasts of the popular Fox News host Tucker Carlson," says a leaked memo from a Russian government agency to media organisations
via @DavidCornDC
motherjones.com/politics/2022/…

6️⃣"The flood of nationalistic pro-Moscow comments on Chinese social media focus less on Russia itself or on dissecting Russia-Ukraine relations, and more on NATO and the United States," says an analysis by @MariaRepnikova @WendyZhou502 theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

7️⃣@sarahmanavis writes about the "vanity reporters and 'activists', in Ukraine but also in the West, eager to cast themselves as primary voices in a conflict that has little, if anything, to do with them."
newstatesman.com/social-media/2…

8️⃣"Too often, truth is forgotten or pushed aside in the heady rush to post our way out of powerlessness. Turning to the internet, where your voice echoes loudly once more, is a balm," writes @mlothianmclean
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…