War in Ukraine and Disinformation Newsletter 16 August
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16 August 2022
The BBC’s Global Disinformation Unit has discovered intimate pictures of women are being shared and viewed, without their consent, by tens of thousands of people on the social media app Telegram.
“We know that Telegram can remove and [has] been removing terrorist-related content or some kind of very radical political content,” says Dr Aliaksandr Herasimenka, researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute.