Post by embassy in London had claimed images of women injured in hospital bombing were faked
Twitter has removed a post from the Russian embassy in London about the Mariupol hospital bombing which claimed that the facility was no longer operational and that images of the attack had been faked, following criticism from Downing Street.
No 10 accused the embassy of posting disinformation on Twitter after it posted pictures of the bombing emblazoned with the label “fake”. A series of follow-up tweets, including a claim that a victim of the bombing was “played” by a beauty blogger, have also been removed after Twitter said they “violated the Twitter rules”.
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