Ukraine-Russia Crisis: Facebook, Twitter Highlight Security Steps for Users

Facebook proprietor Meta Platforms has arrange a particular operations middle to observe the battle in Ukraine, and it launched a characteristic so customers within the nation can lock their social media profiles for safety, an organization official stated in Twitter posts on Thursday.

Twitter on Wednesday posted tips about how customers can safe their accounts in opposition to hacking, be sure their tweets are personal and deactivate their accounts. The firm tweeted the security ideas in English, Russian and Ukrainian.

Both social media platforms are sometimes utilized by political activists and researchers to disseminate info throughout occasions of disaster. The Russian invasion of Ukraine on Thursday additionally raised considerations concerning the unfold of disinformation concerning the battle on social media.

With one click on, customers in Ukraine can lock their profile to stop customers who should not their buddies from downloading or sharing their profile image, or seeing posts on their timeline, Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook’s head of safety coverage, said on Twitter.

On Wednesday, Twitter additionally shared info on how customers can deactivate their accounts.

As the battle in Ukraine escalated on Thursday, social media customers took to platforms like TikTok, Snapchat, and Twitter to submit movies of evacuation strains, helicopters within the sky, and anti-war protests in Russia.

On short-form video app TikTok, the hashtags “Russia” and “Ukraine” had 37.2 billion and eight.5 billion views, respectively.

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