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Russian internet: Instagram users in Russia are told service will cease at midnight
Instagram users in Russia have been notified that the service will cease as of midnight on Sunday after its owner Meta Platforms said last week it would allow social media users in Ukraine to post messages such as "Death to the Russian invaders".
[ cnn.com ]Journalist killed: Tributes paid to US journalist shot dead by Russians in Ukraine
Award-winning American journalist Brent Renaud was killed by Russian forces in the Ukrainian city of Irpin, police in Kyiv said in social media posts on Sunday. Another American journalist was reported wounded.
[ cnn.com ]Fact check: Daniel Dale disproves 'sneaky fake' video
CNN's Daniel Dale debunks videos circulating on social media wrongfully linking body bag footage to the war in Ukraine.
[ cnn.com ]Fake news: These videos are not proof of 'crisis actors.' CNN breaks it down.
CNN's Daniel Dale breaks down two videos being spread online to claim the media is broadcasting footage of "crisis actors." Neither video shows what pro-Russia social media accounts claim.
[ cnn.com ]China's call with EU leaders: Xi says China is willing to play role in mediating Ukraine crisis
President Xi Jinping said Tuesday that China is willing to "work actively" with the international community to mediate the war in Ukraine, but did not offer details and reiterated his opposition to Western sanctions against Russia.
[ cnn.com ]How the Ukraine war exposed Western media bias
• More Russian media outlets close as Moscow cracks down • Video: He was Russia's richest man. Hear what he thinks about Putin
[ cnn.com ]Why some people STILL believe the Earth is flat
Flat Earth videos rack up huge views on the Internet — but how could anyone believe such a fundamentally false idea? Daily Beast reporter Kelly Weill joins John Avlon on this week's Reality Check to discuss her new book and explain how social media has given an old conspiracy theory a huge boost.
[ cnn.com ]RT America lays off most of its staff and stops production
• Watch: Russian state TV is covering the war very differently • Opinion: I'm a Black, African woman. It's time to change the channel on Ukraine media coverage
[ cnn.com ]Watch: Ukrainian civilians stare down Russian military convoy
Civilians in Melitopol, Ukraine, stood in the road to block a Russian military convoy from advancing before eventually being forced aside. The video emerged on social media on Tuesday, March 1st.
[ cnn.com ]Bob Saget's wife shares heartfelt post about grief and gratitude
Kelly Rizzo, the widow of late comedian and actor Bob Saget, is thanking those who have reached out to her to express their support since is sudden death in January.
[ cnn.com ]Analysis: Trump isn't getting any more popular
Usually when presidents leave office, they almost immediately get more popular. The longer they are out of office, the more kindly the public tends to think of them.
[ cnn.com ]Confirming authenticity: How CNN geolocates and verifies social media footage from Ukraine
From TikTok videos of tanks in Belgorod to Telegram clips of strikes near Kyiv, social media footage has played a key role in the news coverage of Ukraine, revealing new attacks and military movements.
[ cnn.com ]See the videos people are falsely claiming show war in Ukraine
Videos on social media and TV falsely claim to show scenes from the war in Ukraine, and they're getting millions of views.
[ cnn.com ]SE Cupp: Putin is playing Trump and Fox
In this week's episode of "Unfiltered," SE Cupp says far-right voices in the Republican Party and conservative media seem "hell-bent" on helping Russian President Vladimir Putin.
[ cnn.com ]Analysis: Here's the real truth about Donald Trump's Truth Social app
Truth Social, Donald Trump's social media app aimed at taking on Twitter, launched on Monday. So I decided to get in on the action, setting up my own account to see what it was all about.
[ cnn.com ]Devin Nunes left Congress for Trump's media company. This is how it's going
Former President Trump has launched "Truth Social," a new social media app, in response to his ban from multiple mainstream platforms. CNN's Brian Stelter details how the launch of the app is going so far, and what it could mean for Trump's influence going forward.
[ cnn.com ]Hear why right-wing media abruptly stopped covering false Clinton story
CNN's Brian Stelter discusses why right-wing media changed course on a false story about Hillary Clinton many outlets had been covering for days.
[ cnn.com ]Trump-backed Arizona candidate called Covid vaccine a 'crime against humanity'
Mark Finchem, the Arizona secretary of state candidate backed by former President Donald Trump, spread dangerous misinformation about the Covid-19 pandemic on social media, calling the vaccine a "crime against humanity," implying it was a "bio-weapon" and sharing an article last August that suggested Covid-19 did not exist in the Canadian province of Alberta.
[ cnn.com ]Analysis: Right-wing media said it was exposing a scandal. What it really revealed is how bad information spreads in MAGA world
On Saturday night former President Donald Trump declared that he was the victim of a scandal "far greater" than Watergate. He called for criminal prosecutions and "reparations." He said "in a stronger period of time in our country, this crime would have been punishable by death."
[ cnn.com ]Are Americans ready for a return to pre-pandemic normal? Depends on what 'normal' means.
Most Americans are weary of Covid-19, recent polling shows, but there's less consensus over how that exhaustion should translate into policy. Public opinion, these surveys suggest, isn't a struggle between two clearly defined opposing camps -- one favoring an immediate and total lifting of Covid precautions and the other a state of lockdown. Rather, Americans hold a broad spectrum of complex, conflicted and changeable views on managing the pandemic.
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