Careless TikTok costs lives, new posters warn
RUSSIAN security chiefs have launched an advertising campaign urging troops not to use social media networks such as TikTok for fear of giving away military secrets.
As fears grow of an invasion of Ukraine, the Russian military published posters of a Russian soldier saying ‘Nyet’ – meaning ‘No’ – as he is passed a phone with the TikTok app logo on it.
The campaign is the modern-day equivalent of the wartime ‘walls have ears’ posters that warned Britons against careless talk that might cost lives during the Second World War.
Meanwhile, in Ukraine, a massive UKfunded campaign is under way to fight
Russian propaganda and disinformation in the country.
The project, called Filter, launched last year and is aimed at raising public awareness of how people consume information ‘in times of uncertainty’. Media literacy clubs teach Ukrainians how to research whether posts online are true or false.
Valeria Kovtun, head of the Filter project, told the Mirror newspaper: ‘One of the priorities is the development of media literacy to make Ukrainian society more resilient to Russian propaganda.’
Last week, the US revealed new intelligence of a Russian plot to use a faked video as a pretext for an invasion of Ukraine.