this was um today in russia
this happened on at least three
different major tv providers in russia
today the grid looks at first like the
normal rundown of channels and shows but
if you go for example to channel one if
you go to any of the other big state
sponsored tv channels it looks on the
grid like every single program has the
same name for all the channels for all
the time slots
all the shows now have the same name i
mean even if you don't meet read russian
you can see that they're all the same
um i don't read russian but we had it
translated
it turns out according to your tv today
in russia every single show on every
single station and every time slot was
titled on your hands is the blood of
thousands of ukrainians and hundreds of
their murdered children tv and the
authorities are lying no to war
that was the title of every show on
russian television today according to
everybody's tv grid when they turned on
their tvs somebody hacked at least three
of the biggest cable tv providers in
russia today so that is what it looked
like all over russia when people went to
flip on the tube
to see what was on to see what the
options were
also today a fairly major
russian news outlet one called lenta
l-e-n-t-a
this is their website lenta.ru
and today same day that somebody hacked
all the tvs in russia today somebody
also rewrote what appeared to be dozens
of headlines and dozens of articles on
the lenta news website
now as you know as we've been reporting
here for the last couple of months no
independent media is allowed to operate
anymore in russia putin has made it
literally a crime a crime punishable by
15 years in prison
to report on his war in ukraine or even
to call it a war
but look at
what the lenta website looked like
earlier today
in russia now this is with english
translation so you can see what these
headlines look at but oh boy wow this
isn't normal vladimir putin lied about
russia's plans in ukraine putin
unleashed one of the bloodiest wars of
the 21st century these are all the
headlines on the news website today
record spending on the army did not help
russia defeat ukraine the ministry of
defense lied to the relatives of those
killed on the cruiser moskva that big
russian naval ship that was sunk by a
ukrainian missile
also this one russia completely
destroyed the city of mariupol russia
leaves the corpses of its soldiers in
ukraine vladimir putin is afraid to
reveal the truth about his family putin
turned the state into the main robber
meaning like the main thief
of russians vladimir putin has turned
into a pathetic dictator and paranoid
russia threatens to destroy the whole
world
zielinski turned out to be cooler than
putin
war makes it easier to cover up failures
in the economy putin must go he
unleashed a senseless war and is leading
russia into the abyss
again this was all today those were all
separate headlines today on one of the
biggest pro kremlin
state controlled news sites in russia
and it wasn't just the headlines that
they changed each one of those that i
just described to you each one of those
headlines i just read goes to a full
article
that has also been rewritten i mean in a
country where they do not allow
journalism anymore they do not allow
criticism of the government and
especially of the war
these sentences posted today on a
russian news site these were like a
defcon one level threat to the state
look at this
russian president vladimir putin bears
full responsibility for the senseless
and bloody war against ukraine guided by
far-fetched pretexts about threats to
russia the head of state plunged two
neighboring peoples into a war in which
there will be no winners only losers the
president's decision will cost the
country isolation poverty and a rollback
to the very 90s that putin loves to
scare russians with in more than 20
years of his reign he has turned into a
dictator who began to believe in
conspiracy theories and who lost touch
with reality right now putin is
depriving millions of russians of their
future
and taking the lives of innocent
ukrainians vladimir putin must
immediately stop the war and resign
it is one thing to read that in a
western news source
or to read that in any news source in
the world anywhere other than in russia
but to read that in russia
but again today that was a russian major
news site today altered to include that
article and dozens of others like it
and if you started going through them
you noticed that there were a few things
that were consistent in each of the the
new articles that was posted for example
near the top of each of the articles
that was posted on this russian news
site today there was a disclaimer
warning that this had been posted
without the permission of the news
organization saying that it was
definitely going to be taken down so if
you want to read this take a screenshot
of it immediately because this won't
last and indeed that disclaimer was true
all those articles and headlines were
almost immediately taken down off that
russian news site today but they were up
there for long enough that the great and
good people at the internet archive the
wayback machine they captured and saved
all of it they've got screenshots
they've got the historical record of
what those news sites looked like when
the truthful anti-putin stuff was posted
just for moments
and in this case what's fascinating is
that we know who did it
two journalists two young journalists
who used to work for lenta for this news
organization
they
say that they did it they have
reportedly fled russia they are outside
russia personally they apparently still
had logins to access the news site so
that is how they did it they obviously
prepared all this material logged in
uploaded everything logged out and got
out
but they they posted today
um identifying themselves by name
as the people who did it igor polikov
and alexandra miroshnikova
they gave their names
they stood up and said we're the ones
who did this and then they said quote we
are looking for work and lawyers and
probably political asylum
and then they sign off with this quote
do not be afraid do not be silent resist
you are not alone we are many the future
is ours f war
peace to ukraine
and and
we do not know where those two brave
russian journalists are tonight the ones
who did that again it has been reported
that they are outside russia but we do
not know where they are we also don't
know who hacked all the tvs in russia
today either
but man
this is living manifest hope
that bravery is contagious
that dictatorships are brittle that they
have to criminalize journalism and and
criticism of all kinds
because they know it's powerful because
they know they can't survive
the truth
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