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2023-01-22 19:08:58 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 2D4C83A96BA3B1DE6B629ABC08A9535751418C9761E70F4356D07687F99ABC1A
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The original video of this clip is from 2020 https://youtu.be/Pvv5kcecnp4 The person being interviewed is likely citing a figure from this article posted in 2017 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/police-arresting-nine-people-a-day-in-fight-against-web-trolls-b8nkpgp2d His claim of 400 people in Russia being arrested also is from 2017 https://www.newsweek.com/2018/10/19/how-social-media-post-russia-can-land-you-jail-1157822.html The ongoing Ukranian-Russian conflict have likely changed these stats https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/03/22/more-than-15000-russians-have-been-arrested-in-anti-war-protests
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