Going back to pop culture references, many people on Twitter are creating memes showing Zelensky having been photo-edited into various Marvel characters, including Captain America. Some have suggested that he resembles actor Jeremy Renner, who plays Hawkeye in the Marvel movies, and “cast” the actor to play Zelensky in… I guess… a war movie? “Fans cast Jeremy Renner as Zelensky in the fantasy film Invasion of Ukraine: Too Early?” One New York Post read title. “Fans….of what……..,” one person answered.
Etsy sellers are even getting in on the action. On the platform you can buy glass with Zelensky’s face on them surrounded by the colors of the Ukrainian flag, T-shirt with one saying the president in capital letters, another with Zelensky’s face on the famous Barack Obama”ExpectLogo “or a logo with text”President Zelenskyy, my hero. “We learn nothing from doom Meme “Cuomosexual”? No politician needs the level of online frenzy and desire all around him, and Zelensky already has enough on his plate. “Not sure twitter will survive a milkshake of this caliber,” one person wrote reply for hero worship.
Through TikTok, things don’t get much better. Equal NPR As reported over the weekend, the platform has been flooded with purported videos from the front lines of the conflict that actually show footage of “old conflicts, movie scenes and even battles.” in a video game as if it were showing live footage on the ground.”
Vehicle Problems even called out TikTok for “facilitating” the spread of misinformation, writing that “Videos of missile attacks, explosions and gun exchanges are garnering millions of views, although some contain older footage unrelated to this conflict or videos manipulated through audio to capitalize on an anxious audience. ”
It blamed one of the app’s key features, the ability to reuse other people’s audio, as “a major source of digital misinformation” because it allowed people to upload new, false videos. truth by old sound. One of the videos that Media Matters called out, which purportedly came from Ukraine and has more than 5 million views, used audio from a clip of an explosion in Beirut in 2020.
“TikTok’s platform architecture is amplifying fear and allowing misinformation to thrive at a time of high anxiety,” the watchdog wrote. “While it is important that the public remain informed about such high stakes situations, it does not appear that the design of the platform is compatible with the needs of the present time.”
