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Zelensky Wins Social Media

Social media is supremely important in this fight against Russia

Carol Lennox
New Choices
Published in
4 min readApr 2, 2022

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(photo credit: Instagram/Volodymyr Zelensky/via Reuters)

Putin understands propaganda. He used it effectively within America to help get his puppet in the U.S. elected. He also uses it effectively within Russia, although a big part of a dictator’s propanganda is cutting off sources of alternative information, including all social media.

And that’s where he’s losing. For the first time in history, this is when countries, soldiers, governing bodies, and civilian individuals can stay in constant contact. Even Russia’s own soldiers in Ukraine are often able to see on Ukraine devices the truth being reported everywhere except Russia. They are seeing and experiencing Putin’s lies up close. That, and supply issues, are likely why so many of them have left the front and headed home, sometimes on foot.

Some Ways Zelensky and many others of us are using social media and technology to help Ukraine:

Zelensky, age 44, and his Minister for Digital Transformation, Mykhailo Federov, age 31, are using volunteer hackers to beat Russia at its own hacking game. They shut down Russian government and industry websites, and hack into state-sanctioned news…

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Carol Lennox
New Choices

Psychotherapist sharing new choices. Leans far Left. Mindfulness practitioner before it was cool. LPC, M.Ed. Helping you make a difference every day