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I've been seeing a lot of videos posted on social media and then posted to reddit.

Check out these links: https://old.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/ https://old.reddit.com/r/InvasionOfUkraine/

Thanks. I wonder how many of these videos are legitimate and current. I've seen people posting a lot of fake stuff, such as the ghost of kyiv photos. I tried (probably naively) to view some image exif data to determine legitamacy but I assume the big sites like twitter, reddit etc all remove that meta data.

Yea I wonder that as well, I just try keep in mind that every video / story might not be exactly what it seems and to use my own judgement. But at the same time I bet a good amount of it is real. It's kind of the first major military operation of a nation outside of the middle east in the time of social media and smartphones. I would expect a lot of footage to get out.

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