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With anti-putin messages posted on them in the past few hours basically publicizing the reality of what's going on on the ground in ukraine and assailing putin, signs that putin is losing this information war. that's one level. another level, the "new york times" said they're winning the pr battle, that's less important than the physical work on the ground but it is critical around the world. zelenskyy has been able to gather support. the ukrainians able to gather the world support online in this digital age. >> even my 15-year-old brought that up to me yesterday saying no matter what, the pre...

>> facebook's parent company meta blocked access to russian state media in ukraine. this comes after the company announced it shut down fake pages trying to spread propaganda. calling on plat forms to put a lid on russian propaganda altogether. chief media correspondent brian stelter joining me now. we know propaganda is key to putin and putin's plans but senator mark warner said to jim sciutto, he said what surprised him is that putin hasn't tried to shut down the internet himself, including access to western news sources in russia. looking at how these two play out is also interesting. >> it...

During those public comments he's not the same putin he was a number of years ago. cold, cool, calculating. you've covered russia for years. do you see something similar? >> you know, jim, you've got to be careful not to be, the armchair psychologist and even on the best of days, putin's mind is a dark place filled with cobwebs but we have seen this pattern of behavior that frankly many of us are familiar with when trying to lock down for covid but for an authoritarian leader like putin who has very limited input and output by his own choice, surrounded himself by people he wants to be afraid ...