Twitter on Wednesday posted tips on how users can secure
their accounts against hacking, make sure their tweets are private and
deactivate their accounts. The company tweeted the safety tips in English,
Russian and Ukrainian.
Both social media platforms are often used by political
activists and researchers to disseminate information during times of crisis.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine on Thursday also raised concerns about the
spread of disinformation about the conflict on social media.
With one click, users in Ukraine can lock their profile to
prevent users who are not their friends from downloading or sharing their
profile picture, or seeing posts on their timeline, Nathaniel Gleicher,
Facebook's head of security policy, said on Twitter.
On Wednesday, Twitter also shared information on how users
can deactivate their accounts.
As the conflict in Ukraine escalated on Thursday, social
media users took to platforms like TikTok, Snapchat, and Twitter to post videos
of evacuation lines, helicopters in the sky, and anti-war protests in Russia.
On short-form video app TikTok, the hashtags
"Russia" and "Ukraine" had 37.2 billion and 8.5 billion
views, respectively.
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