One journalist, Nobel Peace Prize-winner Dmitry Muratov, defends human rights and the independent press in Russia. In return, violent thug Putin has declared Muratov a “foreign agent.”
It should be understood that using a VPN will not protect people when using Facebook (Meta) Messenger or other unsecure texting apps. Most social media companies state in their data use disclosures that they will turn over user data to law enforcement in order to comply with state and federal laws. That happened to a teen and her mother when they used Facebook Messenger to communicate about using abortion pills to end the teen’s pregnancy in Nebraska, and then they were both arrested and convicted.
As advised in this PBS video today, people should use Signal, which uses end to end encryption, to text about anything sensitive that should be kept private:
People who should use Signal include journalists, bloggers, sources, attorneys and their clients, doctors and their patients, whistleblowers, union organizers, social activists, protesters, victims of spousal abuse, and many other people.