Beyond Selidor

Your post was actually the complete opposite of what I was talking about: rather than being a breathless retweet screaming 'donation links to help Ukraine,' you vetted the charities mentioned, explained how you had vetted them, and gave broader context. Would that everyone would do the same! I'm sorry to have given the impression that posts like yours were a bad idea, and I have edited my post to clarify things.

I wonder if, in certain circles, it might also come from a fear that one will be seen as not caring about the war if one doesn't perform involvement?

I totally agree: the 'why isn't anyone talking about this?' phenomenon. I first encountered this back on Tumblr, and it took me years to train myself out of it, even though I'm the daughter of two journalists and used to be a journalist myself. I really wish this attitude would disappear, because it feeds into a climate of mis- and disinformation.

I am using Twitter to a certain extent because the Ukrainian journalists are — understandably — not in a position to file news articles or contribute to livefeeds and analysis, but do seem to have time to dash off a tweet here and there. However, I'm not retweeting anything because I'm not in a position to verify it, and anyone who actually needs to see that information is going to see it, without any input required from me.