Ticked off: Ukraine launches campaign to force Twitter to strip blue checkmark from Russian Foreign Ministry’s Crimean account

In what might be cyber

In what might be cyber warfare’s most minor skirmish yet, Ukrainian officials are leading a charge to strip an account belonging to Russia’s representatives on the disputed Crimean peninsula of its verified status on Twitter.

On Wednesday, local media reported that Kiev’s ambassador to the US has sent an official missive to the San Francisco-based social media giant, asking that they remove the blue checkmark from the account run by the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Crimean mission.

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