Thirteen Days of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Why Putin Invaded Ukraine – and what’s really going on
1) Truth is the First Casualty of War. And War is Permanent
Truth is the first casualty of war, and the Ukraine conflict has been no exception. Online commentary has kept up where corporatist media has failed. Leaving legacy media outlets catching up with what the public began figuring out almost immediately. To save face, and their credibility, even legacy media “fact-checkers” (read: hopeful arbitrators of acceptable opinion) found themselves belatedly decrying the shameless war propaganda peddled by their own journalists.
“Misleading posts have come from “official” sources as well as from “ordinary” social media users. One example was a tweet posted by the verified account of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence.”
While authentic footage and images shared by journalists and local residents documented Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (see: reut.rs/3vk9mx3), @ReutersFacts also identified mislabeled imagery
Because it became almost impossible to hide this:
Truth is the first casualty of war: These Zelenskiy photos “in Camo on the front lines of war” are FALSE This photo of Zelenskiy in camouflage is at the border from 9 April 2021, posted by Reuters on 21st April 2021 appearing as photo number 2 here —> reuters.com/world/europe/u…
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