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🇱🇧 It’s giving Stuxnet: Pagers carried by thousands of Hezbollah members exploded across Lebanon in an apparent attack. Hezbollah said a number of pagers carried by its members exploded simultaneously at 3:30 pm local time, killing at least nine people across Lebanon and injuring 2,700+ others. Independent organizations have yet to determine what caused the blasts, though Hezbollah and the Lebanese government blamed the incident on Israel and promised future retaliation.

📵🇷🇺 Meta banned Russian state media outlet RT from its apps. In explaining the ban, Meta accused RT and its affiliated channels of “foreign interference activity” and using deceptive tactics to amplify Moscow’s propaganda. Meta’s ban comes days after the US government announced sanctions against RT for carrying out covert influence operations aimed at interfering in foreign elections. It also comes two weeks after the DOJ charged two RT employees accused of sending ~$10 million to a US-based online media company to spread hidden Russian government messaging across Americans’ social media.

🇺🇦🇷🇺 Overall casualties from the Russia-Ukraine war have reportedly surpassed 1 million. While determining the exact number of dead and wounded is near impossible, Wall Street Journal sources estimate ~80,000 Ukrainian troops have been killed and ~400,000 more have been injured since the war began in February 2022. On the flip side, an estimated ~200,000 Russian troops have been killed and ~400,000 others have been wounded.