St. Petersburg deputies are deleting and renaming channels on social…
St. Petersburg deputies are deleting and renaming channels on social media. St. Petersburg deputies of local authorities, as well as deputies of the St. Petersburg State Duma, have begun deleting their accounts on Telegram and VKontakte.
Consensus
- Petropolitan deputies are deleting or renaming their Telegram and VKontakte channels.
- Some deputies have removed their personal photos from the channels.
- The changes are being made ahead of elections.
- Deputies are avoiding the use of their surnames in the names of their channels.
- The actions were reportedly prompted by instructions from Moscow.
Points of divergence
- An anonymous deputy stated that the order to disconnect from social networks came from Moscow, with the reason possibly being expected hacker attacks and provocations before elections. — tg_radiosvoboda
- An anonymous channel 'Politik v podguznikakh' claimed that deputies were given a directive to delete Telegram channels under threat of being removed from the elections. — tg_paperpaper_ru
- The vice-governor Vladimir Omelnytsky's channel was renamed to 'V'. — tg_paperpaper_ru
- The Telegram channel of MP Vitaly Milonov was renamed to 'Vitaliy Vybor Millyonov', and Alexei Tsvilyov's to 'Transport SPb'. — tg_radiosvoboda
- The Telegram channel of Vitaly Milonov was renamed to 'Vitally Vybor Millionov', Elena Kiseleva's to 'Kolpinsky District', and Anton Solovyov's to 'Life, Sport, Work'. — tg_paperpaper_ru
- The channel of the governor's deputy Mikhail Amosov successfully removed a candidate from 'Novye Lyudi' due to alleged copyright infringement. — tg_paperpaper_ru
- The channel of Dmitry Pavlov from 'Novye Lyudi' was renamed to 'Za Piter', which could be confused with Andrey Mal'kov's channel 'Vperyod, za Piter'. — tg_radiosvoboda
Coverage (3 sources)
- St. Petersburg deputies massively delete or rename their Telegram channels and VKontakte pages Speaker of the Zakso... — Бумага
- St. Petersburg deputies delete and rename channels on social networks — Радио Свобода
- St. Petersburg deputies massively delete or rename their Telegram channels and VKontakte pages — Бумага
Key entities
- VKontakte
- State Duma
- ZakS
- Max
- Aleksandr Belsky
- Vitaliy Milonov
- Kolpinsky District
- State Assembly
- Elena Kiseleva
- Paper
- Vitaly Vybor Millions
- Санкт-петербургские
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