2023-09-08
Gloves coming off from Ukrainian government. When I talked to them for my own pieces - I broke the Starlink interference story last year, adding the “exclusive” details re Sevastopol in March - they were petrified about escalating Musk. No longer
CNN
An excerpt from Walter Isaacson's Elon Musk biography: Musk cut off Starlink internet access near Crimea to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on a Russian fleet
Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company's Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast …
2022-10-08
Didn't post this when it came out on Wed. @ChristopherJM in his new piece suggests the outages started earlier. Worrying. https://www.economist.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Financial Times
Sources: Ukrainian troops report widespread outages of Starlink devices, often in areas on the front line where their advances have not been made public yet
Saturday, October 08, 2022 // (IG): BB // INTSUM // Coffee for Bob Kris Holt / Engadget : Frontline Ukraine troops are reportedly enduring Starlink outages The Economist : Elon Mus...
2022-03-12
New — Valentina Matviyenko, the Ukrainian-born apparatchik who cheered on Vladimir Putin's war, has closed her Instagram account after the app became illegal today. A somber moment to reflect, and mourn. https://twitter.com/...
Washington Post
Sources: Apple and Google removed Kremlin critic Navalny's app in September after FSB agents came to top executives' homes and threatened to take them to prison
Russian agents came to the home of Google's top executive in Moscow to deliver a frightening ultimatum last September …
New — Valentina Matviyenko, the Ukrainian-born apparatchik who cheered on Vladimir Putin's war, has closed her Instagram account after the app became illegal today. A somber moment to reflect, and mourn. https://twitter.com/...
Bloomberg
Russia moves to designate Meta as an “extremist organization”; source says WhatsApp won't be affected as it is a means of communication
WhatsApp is the most popular messenger in Russia, it takes up nearly 60% of all messenger internet traffic. We are talking tens of millions of people having limited access to comms...