<story><title>Social Media Cracked the Case of MH17</title><url>http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-10-14/social-media-cracked-the-case-of-mh17</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>korisnik</author><text>Russian&amp;#x2F;rebel social media also played a role in all this, in a way that&amp;#x27;s not mentioned in this article.&lt;p&gt;There are some official and close-to-official social media accounts that are used by the Russian rebels to announce progress (Twitter, Facebook, VK) usually straight from the mouths of commanders and higher ups.&lt;p&gt;When MH-17 was downed they boasted about shooting down a Ukrainian plane only to find themselves quickly deleting all mention of it several hours later.&lt;p&gt;Those same accounts also boasted about acquiring a Buk missile launcher weeks earlier, but those status updates were also deleted.</text></comment>
<story><title>Social Media Cracked the Case of MH17</title><url>http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-10-14/social-media-cracked-the-case-of-mh17</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>r721</author><text>This all also shows how important (neutral) web-archiving services like archive.org or archive.is are - they work like a free equivalent of a notarized screenshot, as usual .png screenshots can be forged with simple browser tricks.</text></comment>