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Cairo to Kyiv: Social media’s rocky ride through conflict zones

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When Yarema Dukh set up Ukraine’s official Twitter account in 2016, he knew that social media was the best way for his country to get its message out. “We never had the means like the Russians to found multinational media like RT or Sputnik,” the former government communications adviser told AFP over the phone from Kyiv. Since Russia’s full invasion last month, the Kyiv government has used social media to highlight atrocities, issue messages of defiance and even share a joke or two. Young Ukrainians have used TikTok to chronicle life under Russian siege and tech enthusiasts have commandeered T…

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