Belsky has returned to VKontakte and promised to delete comments…
Belsky has returned to VKontakte and promised to delete comments calling for war. After deleting all his social media pages on August 4, the Chairman of the Regional Assembly, Alexander Belsky, has returned to VKontakte.
Consensus
- Alexander Belinsky restored his VKontakte page after it was compromised.
- Several days before the restoration, social media accounts of Saint Petersburg deputies and candidates were targeted in a series of coordinated attacks.
- The previous posts on Belinsky's VKontakte page are no longer accessible.
- Belinsky stated he would start anew and continue sharing information about parliamentary work and events.
- The restoration of the page occurred after a court decision that reversed the disqualification of candidate Yuri Kulikov.
- Deputies and candidates in Saint Petersburg had previously deleted or renamed their social media channels.
Points of divergence
- Belinsky reported that the control was fully restored on August 10, but previous posts were inaccessible. — fontanka
- Belinsky returned to VKontakte after August 4, and the restoration occurred after a court decision on Kulikov's disqualification. — tg_paperpaper_ru
- Belinsky added a set of 16 commenting rules, including a ban on using Latin script instead of Cyrillic, capital letters, flooding, and calls to war. — tg_paperpaper_ru
- Activist Yaroslav Kostrov claimed that complaints were filed with the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Center E against several 'people's deputies' for posting links in banned social networks, citing his own 10-day detention and loss of passive voting rights. — fontanka
- Belinsky claimed that the attacks were aimed at preventing malicious actors from publishing false information under the names of deputies, but did not explain why attackers couldn't revert the account names. — tg_paperpaper_ru
Coverage (2 sources)
- Attack repelled. Speaker of St. Petersburg Zakskobor restored page in 'Vkontakte' — Фонтанка
- Bel'sky returned to 'Vkontakte' and promised to delete comments with calls to war — Бумага