Russian Soldiers Ordered Not To Use Tiktok In An Effort To Curb The Leaking Of Confidential Info & Military Secrets

Russia has reportedly warned its soldiers and military personnel to avoid TikTok and other social media platforms in an effort to avoid the leaking of confidential information as the foreign nation inches closer to an alleged planned invasion of Ukraine.

The campaign, which was launched by the country’s security chiefs on Saturday, involved a mass publishing of posters depicting a Russian solider saying “No!” as he is passed a phone with the TikTok logo on the screen.

This is hardly the first time a country has launched an ad campaign in an effort to curb the potential leaking of military secrets and classified information.

Posters like this were frequently put-up during World War 2 and have since become known as “walls have ears” wartime posters due to the fact that they depicted walls with ears as a reminder for British soldiers to be careful talking about military plans in public.

The timing of Russia’s newly launched ad campaign is also suspect, because it comes as the country is growing ever-closer to what many believe is a planned invasion of Ukraine.

Over the past, the country started positioning troops around Ukraine’s borders. In an effort to fight any disinformation Russia might use as a pretext to invade, a United Kingdom funded campaign called Filter has been put in place to counter the foreign country’s propaganda machine.

Filter reportedly launched last year and aims to raise public awareness regarding how people consume information “in times of uncertainty.”

“One of the priorities is the development of media literacy to make Ukrainian society more resilient to Russian propaganda,” Valeria Kovtun, the person in charge of the project, recently shared.