{"id":1369680,"date":"2022-03-10T11:58:14","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T16:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1369680"},"modified":"2022-03-10T17:01:12","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T22:01:12","slug":"twitter-deletes-russian-embassy-u-k-tweets-claiming-maternity-hospital-was-staged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-deletes-russian-embassy-u-k-tweets-claiming-maternity-hospital-was-staged\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Deletes Russian Embassy U.K. Tweets Claiming Maternity Hospital Was Staged"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftwitter-deletes-russian-embassy-u-k-tweets-claiming-maternity-hospital-was-staged%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1369680&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1239059408.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Twitter stepped into the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine on Thursday, deleting tweets from Russia\u2019s Embassy in the United Kingdom that claimed photos of the bombing of a maternity hospital in the embattled city of Mariupol had been staged.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC\u2019s Shayan Sardarizadeh \u2014 who routinely reports on <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/dial-nhs-1-1-1-ukrainian-ambassador-to-the-un-tells-russian-diplomats-to-seek-mental-help\/\">disinformation<\/a>, conspiracy theories, cults, and extremism \u2014 detailed the Russian Embassy U.K.\u2019s efforts to spin the deadly attack in his own thread, noting that the narrative had changed several times along the way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s day 15 of war in Ukraine. 1) After yesterday\u2019s deadly attack on a Mariupol maternity hospital, a false claim began trending on Russian Telegram that a non-preganant crisis actor played the role of two pregnant women there. It was echoed by the Russian Embassy in UK today,\u201d Sardarizadeh began, sharing screenshots of the false claim\u2019s reach.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&#8217;s day 15 of war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>1) After yesterday&#8217;s deadly attack on a Mariupol maternity hospital, a false claim began trending on Russian Telegram that a non-preganant crisis actor played the role of two pregnant women there.<\/p>\n<p>It was echoed by the Russian embassy in UK today. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LenVVB7wZP\">pic.twitter.com\/LenVVB7wZP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shayan Sardarizadeh (@Shayan86) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Shayan86\/status\/1501965460253945860?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He then broke down the claims, noting that the woman they accused of being a \u201ccrisis actor\u201d could possibly have been at the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/atrocity-russia-bombs-maternity-hospital-reports-say\/\">maternity hospital<\/a> because she was actually pregnant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s take their claims one by one. Marianna Podgurskaya, the woman they claim to be a crisis actor, is indeed a beauty influencer who actually lives in Mariupol. Multiple recent images show she\u2019s heavily pregnant, which is why she\u2019d be at a maternity hospital yesterday,\u201d he tweeted, sharing photos from Podgurskaya\u2019s social media accounts.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">2) Let&#8217;s take their claims one by one.<\/p>\n<p>Marianna Podgurskaya, the woman they claim to be a crisis actor, is indeed a beauty influencer who actually lives in Mariupol. Multiple recent images show she&#8217;s heavily preganant, which is why she&#8217;d be at a maternity hospital yesterday. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/P8GrIIqtge\">pic.twitter.com\/P8GrIIqtge<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shayan Sardarizadeh (@Shayan86) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Shayan86\/status\/1501965468587986948?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe claim she was acting the role of two pregnant women yesterday is simply preposterous,\u201d Sardarizadeh continued. \u201cA look at high-res images of the other woman featured in their claims shows she looks nothing like Ms Podgurskaya. These are two different women.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">3) The claim she was acting the role of two pregnant women yesterday is simply preposterous.<\/p>\n<p>A look at high-res images of the other woman featured in their claims shows she looks nothing like Ms Podgurskaya.<\/p>\n<p>These are two different women. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/82lNpxmG52\">pic.twitter.com\/82lNpxmG52<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shayan Sardarizadeh (@Shayan86) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Shayan86\/status\/1501965477249273857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sardarizadeh went on to note that another false claim circulating was that the hospital had been empty at the time it was bombed \u2014 but a post from just days earlier asking for fuel to help keep the hospital up and running despite the invasion made it clear that was a lie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery claim made by pro-Kremlin accounts and the Russian Embassy in the UK is false. But those false claims are all over the internet, including on 4chan. Ms Pogurskaya will likely be a target for online trolls for some time, on top of the disaster she\u2019s already endured,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Every claim made by pro-Kremlin accounts and the Russian embassy in the UK is false.<\/p>\n<p>But those false claims are all over the internet, inclduing on 4chan. Ms Pogurskaya will likely be a target for online trolls for some time, on top of the disaster she&#8217;s already endured. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zS7vGSIJXT\">pic.twitter.com\/zS7vGSIJXT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shayan Sardarizadeh (@Shayan86) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Shayan86\/status\/1501965495104417810?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Twitter stepped in then, deleting at least two of the demonstrably false statements tweeted by the Russian Embassy, UK.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwitter has now removed two of the three demonstrably false tweets by the Russian embassy in UK, saying they violated its rules,\u201d Sardarizadeh reported.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Twitter has now removed two of the three demonstrably false tweets by the Russian embassy in UK, saying they violated its rules. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/awgpSbQhsO\">pic.twitter.com\/awgpSbQhsO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shayan Sardarizadeh (@Shayan86) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Shayan86\/status\/1501977971221057549?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW: Twitter has removed content from Russian Embassy UK claiming the bombing of a maternity hospital had been staged <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dV3TvduDj4\">pic.twitter.com\/dV3TvduDj4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 James Clayton (@JamesClayton5) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamesClayton5\/status\/1501963772042235918?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>TIME\u2019s Vera Bergengruen reported that Twitter confirmed removing the tweets, saying that they had violated the platform\u2019s regulations against denying violent events.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUpdate: A Twitter spokesperson just confirmed that these tweets from the Russian Embassy have been removed for violating their \u2018denial of violent events\u2019 rules,\u201d she tweeted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Update: A Twitter spokesperson just confirmed that these tweets from the Russian Embassy have been removed for violating their &#8220;denial of violent events&#8221; rules <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7hkcmpYiMC\">https:\/\/t.co\/7hkcmpYiMC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Vera Bergengruen (@VeraMBergen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VeraMBergen\/status\/1502001007865352198?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Conspiracy researcher Mike Rothschild argued that Twitter should have gone further, and advocated removing all \u201cpropaganda accounts\u201d from the platform entirely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe UK Russian embassy account claims the maternity hospital hit by Russian artillery was fake, and the victims of the attack are crisis actors. Time for Twitter to deplatform all these propaganda accounts,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The UK Russian embassy account claims the maternity hospital hit by Russian artillery was fake, and the victims of the attack are crisis actors. Time for Twitter to deplatform all these propaganda accounts. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EIHb5olXxG\">pic.twitter.com\/EIHb5olXxG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mike Rothschild (@rothschildmd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rothschildmd\/status\/1501933451590582277?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter stepped into the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine on Thursday, deleting tweets from Russia\u2019s Embassy in the United Kingdom that claimed photos of the bombing of a maternity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1369680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1369680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1369680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1369680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1369680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}