As media reports pour in from Ukraine, a deluge of misinformation about the Russian invasion is flooding social media, from conspiracy theories about biolabs to out-of-context photos and videos falsely claiming to show the conflict.
A March 12 Facebook post adds to the noise by questioning the veracity of war footage.
“26,000,000 cell phones in Ukraine,” reads the post, which shows a screenshot of a tweet from March 9. “100% internet coverage. Not one raw footage video. Think about it.”
The post, published by The Urban Conservative, garnered over 400 shares within two days. The tweet it features, posted by user @MrBlue1776, has reached an even larger audience: more than 30,000 likes and 10,000 retweets. Similar posts questioning the reality of the conflict have circulated online.
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But raw footage is coming out of Ukraine. Though many videos circulating online have been debunked, media outlets have also verified a lot of footage from the conflict.
USA TODAY reached out to The Urban Conservative for comment. The Twitter user couldn't be reached for comment.
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