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May 26, 2022 // Amid Russia's physical invasion, Ukraine has effectively won the information war, preempting and debunking the same Russian disinformation that disrupted democracies in Europe and the U.S. We can learn from Ukraine's successes, write CollaborateUp's Richard Crespin and Caroline Logan.
our guest vera bergengruen is a correspondent for time and she recently wrote about how putin is losing the information game. and then collins is an nbc news senior reporter who wrote about facebook and twitter removing disinformation accounts targeting ukrainians. let me start with you, vera, it s striking how effectively ukrainian resistance, again, outmatched militarily, in desperate and dire straits a country invaded. and understands quite clearly that the only constraint that they have on military force s global public opinion via social media. how successful has this strategy been? we can obviously see that has been very successful. i mean, when you see how much most people knew about ukraine a week ago and how strongly they feel about ukraine now by its president, all these images that we have seen have really kind of embedded themselves into our consciousness. they have been very successful with that. and as you noted, a lot of this is intentional.