Providers began to insert contextual advertising with news from pro-government media on websites without the HTTPS protocol.

Russian mobile operators and Internet providers began placing news from pro-government media as contextual advertising on sites without the secure HTTPS protocol . This information The Insider was confirmed to by Roskomsvoboda specialists.

This was first noticed by user a Twitter with the nickname @MosSobyaniin . He, using Rostelecom as a provider, tested his site on GitHub . News appeared on the page with the headlines “They are close to us in spirit! Residents of Kherson and Zaporozhye will become part of the Russian Federation”, “Run before it’s too late! The Airborne Corporal gained the upper hand in a battle with superior forces.” The user noted that the links led to materials from Tsargrad, Regnum , InoSMI, Lenta.ru and other media.

Another source told the publication about similar inserts on the website. On the website of his friend, who owns a dental clinic, there were links to the news “USA Experiments. What pathogens were found in biological laboratories in Ukraine” and “Immunity to sanctions. Russia will use Western sanctions to its advantage.”

“About a month and a half ago, a friend of mine, the owner of a clinic, contacted me with a request for urgent help, since his website was “hacked.” When he went to the site, a lot of the same type of propaganda advertising was displayed, justifying Russia’s military actions against Ukraine,” explained The Insider’s interlocutor . It turned out that such contextual advertising is displayed if you access the site using Beeline and Megafon.

In addition, the publication's interlocutor from Russia said that Yandex.Mail automatically sent a letter sent to her from the Anti-War Committee of Russia to the spam folder. She also stopped receiving mailings from publications “that are not subject to government censorship.” The girl assumed that the service deleted these letters.