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Twitter Blue accounts fuel Ukraine War misinformation

www.bbc.com Twitter Blue accounts fuel Ukraine War misinformation

False and misleading claims about the war in Ukraine are being widely shared.

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BBC has no business teaching others about false and misleading claims about the NATO-Russia war.
- Russia isn't at war with NATO and the proof of that is that Russia still exists as a sovereign nation.
  
  They are not a US peer, much less a threat to NATO.
- As opposed to... Listening to random people on twitter?
  
  BBC is one of the top news sources in the world.
  
  Mainstream news sources have two primary functions: distracting you with entertainment while manufacturing consent.
  
  That's a really cute outlook, and, like a lot of the people who tell you "MSM is evil!", well divorced to reality.

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