Soldiers on social media
Wednesday, August 6, 2014 - 07:01
in Mathematics & Economics
By now, millions of people around the world recognise the face of Alexander Sotkin. This young Russian soldier posted selfies on Instagram that appear to place him in Ukrainian territory over the past few weeks. To some, this qualifies as evidence of Russian military presence in eastern Ukraine, making social media a valuable source of intelligence gathering. Others just think Sotkin made a stupid mistake in enabling his posts to be geo-tagged.