Russia - in the hope of giving Russian citizens access to more information about the conflict in Ukraine.The tool, hosted at a site called 1920.in, was created by hacker group Squad303.
Following a signal boost from the hacktivist group Anonymous, more than seven million texts have now been sent since the tool first launched, or around 5 percent of the population of Russia.Users can choose a random Russian phone number and then copy a message in Russian to them.
One of the messages reads: “Dear Russians, your media is being censored.“The Kremlin is lying. Find out the truth about Ukraine on the free internet and in the Telegram app.
Time to overthrow dictator Putin!”The response has been so overwhelming that the Russian government is reportedly blocking some of the pre-written messages word-for-word from Russian phones.In a Twitter update today, Squad303 said: "We have the direct evidence that YOU're doing great job!
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