Videos and photos of the supposedly Russian invasion of Ukraine are widely spreading all around Facebook. All these attacks in the live stream are fake, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-24/facebook-hosting-gaming-videos-misleading-users-on-russia-attack?sref=l3J6d079&fbclid=IwAR0uTQtUJq1qcr3qcbCtctBUJjzPiD7_2OrMxZ-MZQC0VE3TSPHnySUXWls">says</a> Bloomberg.

Fake Videos and photos of the supposedly Russian invasion of Ukraine are widely spreading all around Facebook. All these attacks in the live stream are fake, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-24/facebook-hosting-gaming-videos-misleading-users-on-russia-attack?sref=l3J6d079&fbclid=IwAR0uTQtUJq1qcr3qcbCtctBUJjzPiD7_2OrMxZ-MZQC0VE3TSPHnySUXWls">says</a> Bloomberg.

25 February 2022 16:00

According to Bloomberg, all these videos and screenshots are from the game on the military theme - Arma 3. Under the post with Arabic Arma 3 video, marked as "latest news" the author left the comment which says a live stream from the Ukrainian borders was documented by journalists.

These videos were seen by over 110 000 people and posted over 25 000 times on Facebook. Facebook deleted all fake materials after Bloomberg News asked the owner of the Facebook Meta Platforms to comment on the situation.

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