Twitter suspended popular account for exposing alleged russian disinformation:
Twitter allegedly suspended a popular account monitoring the war in ukraine, osintdefender, for a feb.
18 tweet reportedly exposing russian disinformation, according to snapshots.
What happens when elon musks poison pusher accounts such as osintdefender are noticed and become worthy of investigation by u.
s.
Osintdefender's live twitter space with the latest developments in ukraine.
#osint #ukraine #opensource #warreport #warinukraine #russianwarcrimes
Analysts at the molfar agency decided to investigate osintdefender's activities.
They uncovered his intriguing details, including his name, workplace, and interests.
We'll delve deeper into this shortly.
By leaving out validation, they're ahead of the mainstream curve (e.
g.
Reuters), but with the cost of a significant amount of wrong/fabricated news being tweeted.
It's like deleting a filter:
You get more noise but also remove the dampening effect.
Most of the tweets on the osintdefender twitter account, which bills itself as an open source intelligence monitor, have focused lately on the russian invasion of ukraine.
A post on monday.