A flood of misleading content, including miscontextualized videos and previously debunked claims, engulfed social media platforms in the wake of Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky's European trip.
As the Ukrainian leader met with allies in London, Paris and Brussels, urging them to provide more firepower to Ukraine, many of the fabrications were posted under the #ZelenskyWarCriminal umbrella, pushing the hashtag into Twitter trends.
While the posts echoed and amplified many of the familiar talking points and false narratives used by Russian state media and pro-Kremlin accounts, they were riddled with misleading, unevidenced content as well as outright disinformation that the platform failed to remove.
Newsweek Misinformation Watch reached out to Twitter for comment.
A video, clipped from TikTok and purportedly showing protests in Ukraine was shared by an unverified account "TheeGreatAwakening," with the caption "Hundreds of Thousands of #Ukrainian 's Demand #ZelenskyWarCriminal Step Down as President.."
The tweet so far received more than 170,000 views. However, as Newsweek was able to verify, the video is neither new nor is it from Ukraine.
There are a number of giveaways that the 26 second video, consisting of three separate clips spliced together with a caption "From morning to evening, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians demand Zelensky step down as president," is taken out of context.
The Latin alphabet is clearly visible on a number of protest and street signs...
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