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Ukraine: influencers, small soldiers of information warfare

2022-03-20T20:38:50.951Z


INVESTIGATION – Washington like Moscow rely on these opinion leaders. A challenge for social networks.


At 2 p.m. on Thursday, March 10, Joe Biden begins his afternoon with a high-level meeting around the war in Ukraine.

From the White House, the American president, surrounded by his teams, finds himself on Zoom facing around thirty TikTok influencers, most of whom are barely 25 years old.

On the fifteenth day of the invasion of the country by Russia, the Democratic Administration wants to ensure that these content creators will decipher, without false note, the conflict for their hundreds of thousands of subscribers.

The videoconference barely over, the magic begins to operate.

On the social network, the influencer Victoria Hammet (followed by 750,000 people) tells why the implementation of the ban on overflights of Ukraine can

"degenerate the conflict".

Then, she launches the hashtag #StopVladimirPoutine.

At the same time, the influencer Khalil Green reminds his 534,000 subscribers

of “the need to support the actions of

NATO

.

From the White House to the Kremlin, influencers…

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Source: lefigaro

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