Ukraine Warns Citizens Not to Share Videos of Combat Aircraft

This week, fresh warnings have been made about the dangers of oversharing military secrets on social media, not just because of the U.S. officials who were part of a group chat on Signal that inadvertently included Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic, in which plans for military strikes in Yemen were carried out. Since the start of the more-than-year-long conflict, social media has allowed individuals in the besieged nation to share real-time reports from the frontlines. Both sides have employed social media to tout victories large and small, and the so-called “war porn” videos that show the destruction of an adversary’s tank or other vehicles have become a staple of what is essentially the first social-media war.

Author: Lake Dodson

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