2025-01-29
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For almost three years, many Ukrainians have.
Been waking up to this.
The sound of missiles, explosions, drones.
These are sounds that my close family in Ukraine live with pretty much every day.
Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine has devastated cities and taken countless lives.
But beyond the physical conflict, another battle has been raging for information and facts.
While Ukrainian official sources have on a few occasions been criticized for making misleading statements, Russia's digital army has rained down disinformation in Ukrainian timelines in an effort to undermine the nation's resolve.
In my day job covering disinformation for BBCVerify, I've witnessed the extent of the.
Challenge spreading pro Russian disinformation about the war in Ukraine.
To fight back, Ukrainians and their allies have deployed fact checking and OSINT techniques.
Now OSINT stands for Open Source Intelligence.
It has become a sort of shorthand for the job of investigating publicly available information.
A lot of it is about working out what we can say from the vast amount of content publicly posted online, especially on social media platforms like X TikTok and the messaging app Telegram.
We need to constantly control, constantly monitor all of it.
So we dedicate our whole life, all our time to basically war.
Alongside fact checking, it's been crucial in building a clearer picture of what's happening on the battlefield for journalists, politicians and ordinary users.
But the work does take its toll.