A full account of the way the internet has responded to the last week and the way world leaders have leveraged the internet over the last week will be a fantastic book to read. Remarkable and history making.

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Here are some of the things that stand out: 🧵

Use of Wikipedia to cover the events as they unfold

Real-time combating of disinformation/misinformation

A call for an international cyber army by Ukrainian leaders

Remixing of @ZelenskyyUa’s selfie video from Kyiv

Social media companies (Twitter) giving actionable online safety info to folks on the ground:

Distribution of reliable sources folks can follow:

Google maps as an OSINT source

Crowdsourced intelligence gathering via GitHub

A call for help of private companies via Twitter:

And a subsequent response with aid

Reporting on tech usage as a signal of what’s happening on the ground

Coverage on how to make Molotov cocktails by the @latimes on tiktok (including some made with club mate bottles)

The official @Ukraine Twitter account crowdsourcing aid via cryptocurrency:

Non-nation state internet groups organizing and taking action

Dissemination of relevant art

More OSINT dissemination via Twitter

Advice from a global expert on urban warfare to civilian resistors in Ukraine via Twitter

Tracking of Russian oligarchs’ planes as they flee Russia

The use of crowdsourcing/microworking platforms to aid in military efforts.

The increased usage of privacy-preserving services like @torproject in the region

Crowdsourced verification and geolocation of munitions

And use of @maphubteam to pin point them exactly on a map:

Third-party tracking of cryptocurrency aid/payments to Ukraine (to the addresses mentioned in an above tweet) in almost real time

jerrybrito.com/ukraine

NFTs as a fundraising method to support Ukrainians suffering from the war

There are Spotify playlists, this one is
the “Soundtrack of the war in Ukraine”

open.spotify.com/playlist/4pSZ7IZ8JKIjZQHEdPqxAg?si=14VWFtPbQb-vO0DiBeH3hA

Another titled “Ukraine draft”

open.spotify.com/playlist/0G6k3u5Q3uaWqf0QfIWyCG?si=huTzO-yoTt-2e1e9ZYs98Q

“Tunes to listen to as you shoot down Su-30s” (a Russian fighter aircraft)
open.spotify.com/playlist/0cw7jPvd8eOOLMCZwVVHRP?si=rjvij1nqQDenXOFCmXhavQ

The increase of Russian military men on Tinder appearing in Ukrainian women’s feed before the attack and engaging with the Russian soldiers for more intel

www.the-sun.com/news/4757640/russian-soldiers-tinder-ukraine/

"Tactical shitposting" by Ukrainian soldiers and others
(h/t to @Abstruse for the term)

Videos of the front lines geolocated using Google maps street view

A Twitter account that will give you real-time updates on the movements of the Russian Oligarchs’ private jets

Listening via webSDR to Russian military communicate

Using tiktok to teach folks how to drive abandoned Russian tanks: