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Last Checked May 12, 2022

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Sat Mar 12 16:16:07 +0000 2022

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Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Last week in Russia, the top five VPN apps on Apple and Google's app stores were downloaded 2.7M times — a nearly *threefold* increase from the week before https://t.co/hG1Lfx3ZdV — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 12, 2022

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Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Russia's internet users are determined to get around Putin's social media blackout. From VPNs to encrypted messaging, Russians are adopting circumvention tech on an unprecedented scale. https://t.co/hG1Lfx3ZdV — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 12, 2022

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Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

In the past two months, Lantern, which gets users around government firewalls, has seen a 2,000% increase in downloads in Russia alone, bringing it from 5,000 monthly users in the country to more than 120,000. https://t.co/hG1Lfx3ZdV — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 12, 2022

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