Using a New Cyber Tool, Westerners Have Been Texting Russians About the War

[Nevilledog]

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Bojan Pancevski
@bopanc
People from around the world are bypassing Putin’s censorship to send millions of text messages/emails about the invasion of Ukraine to ordinary Russians by using a new tool developed by Poland-based @squad3o3 & disseminated by @YourAnonNews https://wsj.com/articles/using-a-new-cyber-tool-westerners-have-been-texting-russians-about-the-war-in-ukraine-11647100803… via @WSJ
Using a New Cyber Tool, Westerners Have Been Texting Russians About the War in Ukraine
wsj.com

Using a New Cyber Tool, Westerners Have Been Texting Russians About the War in Ukraine
A website developed by hackers is a new tool in the West’s battle to counter Russia’s propaganda campaign.
9:03 AM · Mar 12, 2022

https://www.wsj.com/articles/using-a-new-cyber-tool-westerners-have-been-texting-russians-about-the-war-in-ukraine-11647100803

No paywall
https://archive.ph/UaTkM

People around the world are using a new website to circumvent the Kremlin’s propaganda machine by sending individual messages about the war in Ukraine to random people in Russia.

The website was developed by a group of Polish programmers who obtained some 20 million cellphone numbers and close to 140 million email addresses owned by Russian individuals and companies. The site randomly generates numbers and addresses from those databases and allows anyone anywhere in the world to message them, with the option of using a pre-drafted message in Russian that calls on people to bypass President Vladimir Putin’s censorship of the media.

Since it was launched on March 6, thousands of people across the globe, including many in the U.S., have used the site to send millions of messages in Russian, footage from the war, or images of Western media coverage documenting Russia’s assault on civilians, according to Squad303, as the group that wrote the tool calls itself.

The initiative is one among a number of efforts, mainly by Western media organizations and governments, that are trying to puncture the tight controls Mr. Putin’s government has imposed within Russia on reporting about the conflict, which Russian media are banned from describing as a war.

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I did this thread on March 4th

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100216441979

[Iwasthere]

1. This is the solution, things like this. We should all brainstorm

I've been making posts asking for people to input their, think outside the box type ideas to reach the russian public. However I mostly got responses like:

"It won't work", "it'll fall on dead ears"

We have some smart people in here. I know there are some with great ideas.