Misinformation is a topic that I've covered before on this blog, and with the war in Ukraine still going on I thought it'd be good to talk about the misinformation that is spreading online about this war. It's no surprise that during an active war in this generation that there are going to be thousands of people constantly talking about it on the internet. People are constantly looking for updates for the war, and in this age the war is being documented constantly. Take this Facebook post for example, when translated it reads "Ukrainian citizens destroy two Russian tanks with Molotov cocktails (Petrol, gasoline) in Kyiv.". At first you may think "Awesome! It's great that the citizens are doing that", but in reality the entire post is fake. The pictures used to show the destruction are actually from the 2014 protests that took place in Kyiv as a result of the president of the country refusing a free trade agreement with Europe. This post shows that in wartime misinformation can be easily spread, but it actually isn't as bad as you might think. Misinformation during wartime is somewhat of a double edged sword, on one hand it can demoralize the opposing army's troops, but on the other it will misinform the general public. In times like these you must check multiple sources in order to separate the truth from the lies.
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