Christian Borys

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Christian Borys

Canadian journalist

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Russia-Ukraine War
Russian disinformation and the meme war
…operation launched by Canadian journalist Christian Borys. Borys created Saint Javelin—a stylized Orthodox Madonna holding a Javelin antitank guided missile—and printed them on stickers in an effort to raise $500 for humanitarian aid in Ukraine. In what was perhaps the first military conflict to weaponize memes, Saint Javelin represented a…
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…operation launched by Canadian journalist Christian Borys. Borys created Saint Javelin—a stylized Orthodox Madonna holding a Javelin antitank guided missile—and printed them on stickers in an effort to raise $500 for humanitarian aid in Ukraine. In what was perhaps the first military conflict to weaponize memes, Saint Javelin represented a…
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