Tiktok has been laughed at, tried to be banned and considered a Chinese spy tool. The social media service, which now consists of short videos, is an important source of information about the war threatening Ukraine.
Tien along it stands a line of at least twenty tanks. The car moves towards the tail of the queue. At the bottom of the video is the graph’s dashboard, and in the background there is a sound.
In his other videos, in his twenties Victoria dances with her friends in a nightclub, kisses her boyfriend, drives a car between Voronezh and Belgorod.
He is one of hundreds if not thousands of ordinary Russians who have added to the Chinese-owned video service Tiktok’s observations of ongoing events. From there, they are collected by analysts and researchers who monitor the movements of the Russian armed forces.
Some of the videos end up on the Twitter service, where they find their way to a large, international audience.
For example, the videos explain where they were shot. In the method called geolocation, landmarks, road signs and roadside advertisements are helpful. The shooting time is inferred from the shadows and the position of the sun, but weather information can also be helpful.
Sometimes video photographers tell a lot about their videos themselves. Their primary audience is less likely to be the international war-monitoring online community: many of the videos are likely to be aimed primarily at their own followers, for example.
Tiktok is a social media service owned by the Chinese company Bytedance. The idea behind the service, which started as Musically, was originally that the user could add short video clips to the service that were easy to cut and edit with different filters. From the extensive music library was able and still is able to choose the right music for the background.
At first, young and early young people rejoiced at the service, but soon its popularity grew. The limit of 1.5 billion users is likely to be broken this year, the analytics company predicted Data.ai late autumn.
Tiktok has made its name in the headlines of world politics before. At the end of his presidency in 2020, he was then president of the United States Donald Trump tried deny it as part of a trade war against China and Chinese companies. When Joe Biden won the presidential election and came to power in January last year, the previous president’s initiatives remained intact.
In January 2021, Tiktok made headlines because of Russia. Opposition politician Alexei Navalnyita supported by large-scale demonstrations across Russia. Invitations to protest and digital protests spread among young people in Tiktok. Russian online watchdog Roskomnadzor urged Tiktok to remove content, and news agency According to Reuters Tiktok also obeyed.
Consumption it is not known that Roskomnadzor demanded the removal of videos depicting the movements of Russian military equipment.
However, not everything is going well. In January, HS spotted a user-shared video in Tiktok of a young soldier traveling on a train filming other soldiers. In the comments to the video, he said they were on their way to Ukraine and tried to alleviate concerns among their friends. The next day, the account had made all of its data and videos private.
On the other hand, the findings of truck drivers and train drivers, young adults and other private road users will benefit the Russian administration.
The mobilization of the military near Ukraine’s borders has been used in high-level diplomatic negotiations to create intimidation. When a huge military force is available to the public elsewhere in Europe and the United States, it raises concerns.
United States warned earlier in February that Russian intelligence had prepared a visual counterfeiting operation to justify an attack on Ukraine. In one way or another, the forgery would have depicted the dead Russian-speakers and thus invoked Russia’s right to protect them.
Following the U.S. announcement, the separatist regime in eastern Ukraine said mass graves of civilians had been found in Donetsk and that a criminal investigation had been launched by the Russian Federal Investigation Commission. Soon the President of Russia Vladimir Putin referred to the ongoing “genocide” in eastern Ukraine at a press conference.
The possibility of fully staged or distorted image or video material still cannot be ruled out. That’s why Tiktok also needs to be careful.
Satellite imagery is used to support Tiktok videos and other images that appear on social media. For example, the Russian culprits of the Russian culprits in the 2014 missile strike on a Malaysian plane use a lot of satellite imagery. They are also offered by several commercial satellite imagery companies.
Russia announced on Tuesday last week that it would withdraw its troops at the end of the exercises. The next day, the Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg held a press conference in which he saidthis had not been observed.
“We have been very open. And the knowledge we share is confirmed from open sources, images from commercial satellites, ”Stoltenberg pointed to the importance of open sources.
Earlier in February, he was a national security adviser to the U.S. presidential administration Jake Sullivan urged people to believe their own eyes.
“We are talking about more than a hundred thousand Russian soldiers near the borders of Ukraine, and all their capabilities are visible to the people. It’s everywhere on social media, it’s everywhere on your news sites, ”Sullivan told the media.
Since then, more troops have arrived around Ukraine. According to the latest US estimate, there are already 169,000 to 190,000 troops.
In Russia According to the statistics company Statistics, 79% of the population has a smartphone, In Ukraine at least 61 percent. From the numbers, it can be concluded that if Russian troops cross the state borders of Ukraine, it will be guaranteed on social media.
Smartphone however, not only electricity but also a mobile network is needed to operate. Last week, its operations in Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine ceased altogether. Ukraine a representative of the Ministry of the Interior blamed the sabotage of the telecommunications cable or cables and blamed Russia for it. On Saturday, there were disruptions in internet traffic in eastern Ukraine.
In the case of hostilities, it is quite common for network traffic to be blocked or disrupted. Data transmission could also become a problem if Russia uses electronic warfare equipment that it has brought close to Ukraine’s borders.
Findings on the capabilities of electronic warfare come from social media, in this case Just like that. In the background is a Russian song about the war О той весне.
Helsingin Sanomat does not share direct links to Tiktok’s videos due to technical data protection ambiguities in the platform.
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