An official at the Meta company, which owns the social networking site Facebook, said - in Twitter posts on Thursday - that the company has set up an operations center to follow up on the conflict in Ukraine, and has launched a feature that enables users in that country to close their personal files on the site to ensure their security.
On Wednesday, Twitter published tips on how users can secure their accounts from hacking, ensure the privacy of their tweets, and stop deactivating their accounts.
The company has tweeted about safety guidelines in English, Russian and Ukrainian, and political activists and researchers often use Facebook and Twitter to disseminate information in times of crisis.
Yesterday's Russian invasion of Ukraine sparked fears that misinformation about the conflict was spreading on social media.
One-click close
Users in Ukraine can close their profiles with a single click to prevent non-friends users from downloading, sharing photos on their profile or following their posts, Facebook's head of security policy said on Twitter Nathaniel Gleicher.
The day before yesterday, Twitter also shared information on how users deactivated their accounts, and with the escalation of the conflict in Ukraine yesterday, social media users turned to platforms such as TikTok, Snapchat and Twitter, to post videos of evacuation lines, helicopters flying and counter-protests. of the war in Russia.
The "Russia" hashtag has 37.2 billion views, and the "Ukraine" hashtag with 8.5 billion views on the TikTok application for short videos.