Fb proprietor Meta Platforms Inc FB.Ohas arrange a particular operations heart to watch the battle in Ukraine, and it launched a characteristic so customers within the nation can lock their social media profiles for safety, an organization official stated in Twitter posts on Thursday.
Twitter Inc TWTR.N on Wednesday posted tips about how customers can safe their accounts towards hacking, make certain their tweets are non-public and deactivate their accounts. The corporate tweeted the protection suggestions in English, Russian and Ukrainian.
Each social media platforms are sometimes utilized by political activists and researchers to disseminate info throughout instances of disaster. The Russian invasion of Ukraine on Thursday additionally raised considerations concerning the unfold of disinformation concerning the battle on social media.
With one click on, customers in Ukraine can lock their profile to stop customers who should not their mates from downloading or sharing their profile image, or seeing posts on their timeline, Nathaniel Gleicher, Fb's head of safety coverage, stated on Twitter.
On Wednesday, Twitter additionally shared info on how customers can deactivate their account.
Because the battle in Ukraine escalated on Thursday, social media customers took to platforms like TikTok, Snapchat and Twitter to put up movies of evacuation strains, helicopters within the sky and anti-war protests in Russia.
On short-form video app TikTok, the hashtags "Russia" and "Ukraine" had 37.2 billion and eight.5 billion views, respectively.
(Reporting By Jeffrey Dastin in Palo Alto, Calif., Sheila Dang in Dallas and Elizabeth Culliford in New York; Enhancing by Mark Porter and Cynthia Osterman)
On this Aug. 11, 2019, file photograph an iPhone shows a Fb web page in New Orleans. (AP Picture/Jenny Kane, File)
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