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Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Russia's domestic information blackout on Ukraine has everyone from @Schwarzenegger to @StateDept to everyday nurses and plumbers doing their part to get accurate information to the Russian people: https://t.co/ZKUmhcCUR7 w/ @kylieatwood @snlyngaas @DanaBashCNN and @KatieBoLillis — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 18, 2022
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Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

RT @snlyngaas: New --> How hackers, Arnold Schwarzenegger and the State Department are trying to pierce Putin's digital Iron Curtain, w/ @k… — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 18, 2022 Retweet
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Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

RT @donie: Facebook removes Zelensky deepfake, @rachelmetz reports https://t.co/0DYHlHneXE — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 16, 2022 Retweet
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Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Dronemaker DJI offers to geofence in Ukraine following the government’s claim that Russian forces have been using the company’s drones https://t.co/k9PAjVUrNK — PolitiTweet.org

DJI @DJIGlobal

@FedorovMykhailo https://t.co/ZoCXQIDOyt

Posted March 16, 2022
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Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

@BlakeFerrell16 Hey there — I'm a reporter for CNN looking to get in touch for a story we're working on. If you're open to chatting, please DM me! — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 16, 2022
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Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

@s_koechlin Hey there — I'm a reporter for CNN looking to get in touch for a story we're working on. If you're open to chatting, please DM me! — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 16, 2022 Just a Typo
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Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

@_TisHerself Hey there — I'm a reporter for CNN looking to get in touch for a story we're working on. If you're open to chatting, please DM me! — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 16, 2022 Just a Typo
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Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

RT @betsy_klein: President Zelensky drawing parallels to US history as he makes an urgent plea for more support for his country: "Remember… — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 16, 2022 Retweet
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Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

👀 — PolitiTweet.org

Eugene Daniels @EugeneDaniels2

Attorneys for POLITICO, which owns E&E News, wrote a cease-and-desist letter to Josh Hawley's campaign committee la… https://t.co/N53tr…

Posted March 14, 2022
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Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Encrypted messaging apps, VPNs and digital anonymity tools are exploding in popularity in Russia, as internet users try to circumvent Putin's social media crackdown. Here's what that looks like. https://t.co/DVxJFEwj8s — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 14, 2022
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Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

People outside of Russia have been sending people *inside* Russia millions of text messages about what's going on in Ukraine, using a Polish-built website designed to defeat Putin's information blackout. https://t.co/fsSflFLshE — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 14, 2022
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Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

RT @saschameinrath: Discussed the exponential growth of circumvention technology uptake in Russia over the past month with @CNN's @b_fung -… — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 12, 2022 Retweet
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Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

RT @natynettle: Spoke to @b_fung from @CNN about why I remain hopeful that Russian civil society will persevere through the rise of governm… — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 12, 2022 Retweet
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Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

These are just a few of the ways Russian internet users are trying to protect themselves as Russia bans Facebook and Instagram and prohibits the sharing and discussion of truthful news about the war in Ukraine. https://t.co/hG1Lfx3ZdV — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 12, 2022
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Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Telegram was downloaded more than half a million times last week alone in Russia, and Signal 132,000 times, a 28% increase from the week prior, per @SensorTower. @Cloudflare says it's seen "significant growth" in internet traffic to Signal since March 1. 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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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

Some worthwhile stats in here about Instagram’s Russian user base — PolitiTweet.org

Adam Mosseri @mosseri

On Monday, Instagram will be blocked in Russia. This decision will cut 80 million in Russia off from one another,… https://t.co/YFR3UZQDAF

Posted March 12, 2022
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Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Some worthwhile stats in here about Instagram’s Russian user base. https://t.co/AACdJ17gYe — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 11, 2022
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Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

RT @karissabe: Interesting that Clegg says the policy is only for people "in Ukraine itself" while Reuters reported it applied to Poland an… — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 11, 2022 Retweet
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Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Nick Clegg explains Meta’s position on speech about Russians, saying the company “will not tolerate… violence toward Russians” — PolitiTweet.org

Nick Clegg @nickclegg

Responding to reports that the Russian government is considering designating Meta as an extremist organization for… https://t.co/Oxp7I66Nid

Posted March 11, 2022
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Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Russia says it's moving to ban Instagram: https://t.co/UhMpR2e2bi And according to state media, Meta could be declared an "extremist organization": https://t.co/EDwbWUU5rE Huge ramifications for the many, many people in Russia who rely on these platforms for information. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 11, 2022
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Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Uber, but for warfighting — PolitiTweet.org

Kelsey D. Atherton @AthertonKD

Soldiers As A Service https://t.co/NVlv1oUJ8e

Posted March 9, 2022
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Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Amazon's response to today's House letter alleging the company lied under oath: "There's no factual basis for this, as demonstrated in the huge volume of information we've provided over several years of good faith cooperation with this investigation." https://t.co/Okf8cCAjAV — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 9, 2022
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Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

The text of Biden's executive order on cryptocurrency is out. A key part is his statement of administration policy toward a potential digital dollar, and directing : https://t.co/SG3OhSHg5h — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 9, 2022
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Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

RT @brikeilarcnn: Miro served in the US Army as an infantryman in Afghanistan. He’s trying to help prepare Ukrainians who have never see wa… — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 9, 2022 Retweet
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Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

In 2020, lawmakers confronted Amazon’s Jeff Bezos about the claims at a hearing. He said: “We have a policy against using seller-specific data to aid our private label business, but I can’t guarantee you that policy has never been violated.” — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 9, 2022
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Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

The letter focuses on claims Amazon made about how it doesn't use third-party seller data to compete against said sellers. Lawmakers say their investigation uncovered evidence to the contrary. As a refresher, the wider probe produced this major report: https://t.co/HRLBRPPFTA — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 9, 2022
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Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Amazon lied to Congress and DOJ should investigate, according to House lawmakers who spent much of 2019 and 2020 probing the tech industry for possible antitrust violations: https://t.co/sDVNU0SMn8 — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 9, 2022