So often people die for lies in the battle for hearts and minds. It’s getting worse as what now seems to have been a badly conceived invasion.
In the US, RWNJs are now having trouble with participation in their “convoy” protests, and are casting about looking for pro-Putin tropes to motivate their numbers.
2/ 'Her' tweet was unequovical support for Putin. She also called Zelensky a clown. So strong words. At the time I said her profile picture looked like a stock photo, but could not confirm it.
Well now I can...
#Disinformation
#UkraineRussianWar
3/ Yandex and Google returned nothing, but a reverse image search on Bing led me to the same person, but in a slightly different pose...
#disinformation
4/ The Bing result led to a page for a Pakistani gynecologist in Lahore. It was used as an avatar for some feedback.
5/ I took a stab in the dark and went to shutter stock and by searching for indian OR pakistani + woman + mask and got the same woman without the blue jumper. I examined the contributor and presto, found our Dr.
#UkraineRussianWar #DisinformationWar
6/ The eagle eyed among you will notice Dr_Adhira's picture is flipped on the vertical access. This is a common tactic in influence operations as it makes reverse image searches more difficult. Remember the old adage, only the guilty flip their images!
7/ So basically, a propaganda/disinfo account, with few followers, few tweets, but a really influential pro-Putin tweet. Remember, and I can't stress this enough, she's probably one of hundreds/thousands. Probs some call centre style operation
Oh yeah, and look who she follows
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