{"id":46547,"date":"2022-03-05T11:16:39","date_gmt":"2022-03-05T10:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/?p=46547"},"modified":"2025-12-13T22:51:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T21:51:19","slug":"ukraine-war-2-0-on-social-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/policy\/world\/ukraine-war-2-0-on-social-networks\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine: war 2.0 on social networks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unpublished article - Vincianne Hennrich<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our century is marked by the advent of the Internet and social networks. What impact will this have on a global conflict in the 21st century?th<\/sup> century? From influence operations to direct action and open source, an analysis of the importance of new information and communication technologies in the Ukrainian war.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Although war correspondents were already active in the past, they were often limited by numerous factors: filtering of content, transmission delays, manipulation of information. Today, the free dissemination of data is ensured by networks, in real time. In the Ukrainian conflict, major reporters currently on the spot in Kiev have been recounting \u00abthe war\u00bb daily for the past week via storys posted on the social network Instagram or posts on Twitter or Facebook. Sometimes, they can even be found reporting \u00ablive\u00bb in a video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While this new reality enables specialized journalists to make important content available to the greatest number of people, in a very short space of time and, above all, freely, these resources are also available to all citizens. The latter can share their own testimonies and relate facts. What we pompously call the new information and communication technologies (NICTs), to refer to the Internet and all that it enables in this field, thus enable the free circulation of information so that everyone can potentially witness history - and without delay. However, this new situation has its limits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Information, misinformation and disinformation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

While anyone can publish information, anyone can also publish false information, and anyone can consult and interpret it in their own way. On the night of February 24-25, the twittosphere was abuzz with reports of air activity in the Ukrainian region. Three Il-76 transport aircraft leaving Lviv were observed via the Flight Radar website. Individuals with accounts specializing in open source intelligence (OSINT) on Twitter relayed this information. Numerous hypotheses were put forward by Internet users: was it a humanitarian aid rotation? A supply of military equipment? Ex-filtration by the Ukrainian government? This last hypothesis became a rumor. The networks can then amplify the phenomenon of \u00abfake news\u00bb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

News is just a click away. However, this news is sometimes unverified or poorly verified (in which case it's called misinformation<\/em>). Worse still, they can be instrumentalized by a political party, a camp or a state (in this case, it's called misinformation<\/em>). On the evening of February 25, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky filmed himself live in the streets of Kiev, where he repeated the operation the following day, February 26. What was the aim? Beyond the communication and support operation towards his fellow citizens, it was to attest his presence in the capital and thus silence rumors of his flight to Lviv.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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