"People from around the world are using a new website to bypass the Kremlin's propaganda machine by messaging Russians about the war in Ukraine”, reports the Wall Street Journal.
"The site was developed by a team of Polish developers who had about 20 million mobile phone numbers and nearly 140 million email addresses owned by Russian individuals and companies."
The tool was created by the team hacking Squad303, and is hosted on the domain 1920.in. In case you visit the page, you will see a pre-written one message in the native SMS app:
"Dear Russians, your media is being censored. "The Kremlin is lying to you," the statement said.
"Learn the truth about Ukraine at free Internet and in the Telegram application. Time to overthrow the dictator Putin!”
In one his statement in Daily Dot, a member of Squad303 described their effort as a "nonviolent communications project" aimed at circumventing Russia's crackdown on independent news sources.
The domain name for the tool alludes to Poland's surprise victory over Russian forces in 1920.
Squad303 claims that its tool has already been used to send more than 6,3 million text messages, although Daily Dot could not confirm the number.
