
While Russian President Vladimir Putin tries to crack down on foreign--largely U.S.--companies, like Google [GOOGL], Meta Platforms [FB], Apple [AAPL], Twitter [TWTR], and TikTok, to prevent Russians from getting an accurate appraisal of the dictator's invasion of Ukraine, the old adage that the "first casualty of war is the truth" may not apply to the Ukrainian conflict. Mykhailo Fedorov, vice prime minister of Ukraine and Ukraine's minister of digital transformation, has said that Meta is "stepping up to shut down…