Ukraine War Social Media Youth WEB
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- Ukraine War Social Media Youth WEB
- March 23, 2022
- Content Type Package
- Language English
- Transcript/Script English USAGM SHARE ((PLAYBOOK SLUG: Ukraine War Social Media Youth (TV) HEADLINE: Teens, Trauma and Ukraine: The War Comes to Your Phone TEASER: Alarmed, saddened: young people try to make sense of social media’s disturbing images – and adjust. PUBLISHED AT: Wednesday, 03/23/2022 8:11 am BYLINE: Veronica Balderas Iglesias CONTRIBUTOR: DATELINE: Takoma Park, Maryland VIDEOGRAPHER/VIDEO EDITOR: Veronica Balderas Iglesias PRODUCER: SCRIPT EDITORS: Tom Detzel, BR VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA, AFP, Skype, see script for others PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB __ TV _X_ RADIO __ TRT: 3:08 VID APPROVED BY: BR, TD TYPE: TVPKG EDITOR NOTES: UPDATE: Radio Tracks for Reversioning Included ((TV INTRO)) [[Around the world, young people are following a major war in Europe primarily on social media, with some often-disturbing – and sometimes misleading – images landing on their news feeds. VOA’s Veronica Balderas Iglesias talked to teenagers in the United States, Mexico and Poland to find out how they’re processing the bloodshed in Ukraine.]] ((WEB LEAD)) [[Around the world, young people are following a major war in Europe primarily on social media, with some often-disturbing – and sometimes misleading – images landing on their news feeds. VOA’s Veronica Balderas Iglesias talked to teenagers in the United States, Mexico and Poland to find out how they’re processing the bloodshed in Ukraine.]] ((NARRATOR)) YouTube is the social media channel Nathan Sarpal uses to follow the war in Ukraine. ((Nathan Sarpal, Follows Ukraine’s War on Social Media)) “There’s like bombed buildings and people in shelters and subway stations hiding from the war that’s going on above their heads. And it’s just very traumatizing to watch.” ((NARRATOR)) The 12-year-old says he usually isn’t traumatized for long. ((Nathan Sarpal, Follows Ukraine’s War on Social Media)) “I’m just shocked and then I take a little second to process that and then I just continue with my day.” ((Mandatory cg: Maria Fernanda Dounce)) It’s a similar reaction to that of Isabella Vega Dounce, a Mexican student who gets ((Mandatory cg: Instagram/Isabellaavega_)) “trending” Ukrainian war news on Instagram. ((Mandatory cg: Skype)) ((Isabella Vega Dounce, Follows Ukraine’s War on Social Media)) ((SPANISH)) “Videos show up of people shouting or trying to escape. Or images of people who were asleep in what might have been a subway station.” ((NARRATOR)) ((Mandatory cg: Maria Fernanda Dounce)) Talking to her parents helps the 15-year-old deal with negative feelings. She’d rather focus on the humanitarian side. ((Mandatory cg: Skype)) ((Isabella Vega Dounce, Follows Ukraine’s War on Social Media)) ((SPANISH)) “How one can make donations, what we can do to help all those people than we see in those images.” ((Mandatory cg: Magdalena Kantowicz)) Closer to the conflict zone, Polish teenager Maria Kantowicz says... ((Mandatory cg: TikTok/martysia.kan)) ...Tik Tok is full of alarming, eye-opening videos. ((Mandatory cg: Skype)) ((Maria Kantowicz, Follows Ukraine’s War on Social Media (in English) )) “I’m really interested about what people in my age actually feel at the moments like that. How they feel when they have to leave their country, and start their lives in another country, maybe even without their parents, without their family. I’m terrified (about) what they feel.” ((NARRATOR)) ((Mandatory cg: Magdalena Kantowicz)) Parents of all three allowed VOA to interview the teenagers. They said they trust that their children, with some supervision, can keep misinformation at bay. ((Mandatory cg: TikTok/julesterpak)) Jules Terpak, who makes social media content, doesn’t think it’s that simple. ((Mandatory cg: Skype)) ((Jules Terpak/Social Media Content Creator)) “Even vetted journalists have been open about it is very hard to decipher what is real and what is fake on these platforms in terms of these videos of violence.” ((NARRATOR)) Alongside Terpak, ((Mandatory cg: TikTok/kahlilgreene)) Kahlil Greene was among several social media influencers recently briefed by the White House on the war. ((Mandatory cg: Skype)) ((Kahlil Green/Social media influencer)) “I could very easily see people having (getting) riled up about the crisis. But if it gets resolved or partially resolved to the point where it doesn’t directly affect them, people losing interest and/moving on to the next big crisis.” ((NARRATOR)) For now, Nathan Sarpal says he spends half an hour each day watching Ukraine war feeds and mostly keeps his emotions inside. Asked how he sorts truth from fiction, he admits to some guessing. ((Nathan Sarpal, Follows Ukraine’s War on Social Media)) “That’s the part I’m not 100% sure of. But I mean, I just got to trust that it’s real.” ((NARRATOR)) Meta, the company that owns Facebook and Instagram, declined VOA’s interview request, ((VIDEO: VOA)) and we haven’t heard back from YouTube, TikTok, and other social media sites we asked for comment. ((Veronica Balderas Iglesias, for VOA News, Takoma Park, Maryland))
- Transcript/Script USAGM SHARE ((PLAYBOOK SLUG: Ukraine War Social Media Youth (TV) HEADLINE: Teens, Trauma and Ukraine: The War Comes to Your Phone TEASER: Alarmed, saddened: young people try to make sense of social media’s disturbing images – and adjust. PUBLISHED AT: Wednesday, 03/23/2022 8:11 am BYLINE: Veronica Balderas Iglesias CONTRIBUTOR: DATELINE: Takoma Park, Maryland VIDEOGRAPHER/VIDEO EDITOR: Veronica Balderas Iglesias PRODUCER: SCRIPT EDITORS: Tom Detzel, BR VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA, AFP, Skype, see script for others PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB __ TV _X_ RADIO __ TRT: 3:08 VID APPROVED BY: BR, TD TYPE: TVPKG EDITOR NOTES: UPDATE: Radio Tracks for Reversioning Included ((TV INTRO)) [[Around the world, young people are following a major war in Europe primarily on social media, with some often-disturbing – and sometimes misleading – images landing on their news feeds. VOA’s Veronica Balderas Iglesias talked to teenagers in the United States, Mexico and Poland to find out how they’re processing the bloodshed in Ukraine.]] ((WEB LEAD)) [[Around the world, young people are following a major war in Europe primarily on social media, with some often-disturbing – and sometimes misleading – images landing on their news feeds. VOA’s Veronica Balderas Iglesias talked to teenagers in the United States, Mexico and Poland to find out how they’re processing the bloodshed in Ukraine.]] ((NARRATOR)) YouTube is the social media channel Nathan Sarpal uses to follow the war in Ukraine. ((Nathan Sarpal, Follows Ukraine’s War on Social Media)) “There’s like bombed buildings and people in shelters and subway stations hiding from the war that’s going on above their heads. And it’s just very traumatizing to watch.” ((NARRATOR)) The 12-year-old says he usually isn’t traumatized for long. ((Nathan Sarpal, Follows Ukraine’s War on Social Media)) “I’m just shocked and then I take a little second to process that and then I just continue with my day.” ((Mandatory cg: Maria Fernanda Dounce)) It’s a similar reaction to that of Isabella Vega Dounce, a Mexican student who gets ((Mandatory cg: Instagram/Isabellaavega_)) “trending” Ukrainian war news on Instagram. ((Mandatory cg: Skype)) ((Isabella Vega Dounce, Follows Ukraine’s War on Social Media)) ((SPANISH)) “Videos show up of people shouting or trying to escape. Or images of people who were asleep in what might have been a subway station.” ((NARRATOR)) ((Mandatory cg: Maria Fernanda Dounce)) Talking to her parents helps the 15-year-old deal with negative feelings. She’d rather focus on the humanitarian side. ((Mandatory cg: Skype)) ((Isabella Vega Dounce, Follows Ukraine’s War on Social Media)) ((SPANISH)) “How one can make donations, what we can do to help all those people than we see in those images.” ((Mandatory cg: Magdalena Kantowicz)) Closer to the conflict zone, Polish teenager Maria Kantowicz says... ((Mandatory cg: TikTok/martysia.kan)) ...Tik Tok is full of alarming, eye-opening videos. ((Mandatory cg: Skype)) ((Maria Kantowicz, Follows Ukraine’s War on Social Media (in English) )) “I’m really interested about what people in my age actually feel at the moments like that. How they feel when they have to leave their country, and start their lives in another country, maybe even without their parents, without their family. I’m terrified (about) what they feel.” ((NARRATOR)) ((Mandatory cg: Magdalena Kantowicz)) Parents of all three allowed VOA to interview the teenagers. They said they trust that their children, with some supervision, can keep misinformation at bay. ((Mandatory cg: TikTok/julesterpak)) Jules Terpak, who makes social media content, doesn’t think it’s that simple. ((Mandatory cg: Skype)) ((Jules Terpak/Social Media Content Creator)) “Even vetted journalists have been open about it is very hard to decipher what is real and what is fake on these platforms in terms of these videos of violence.” ((NARRATOR)) Alongside Terpak, ((Mandatory cg: TikTok/kahlilgreene)) Kahlil Greene was among several social media influencers recently briefed by the White House on the war. ((Mandatory cg: Skype)) ((Kahlil Green/Social media influencer)) “I could very easily see people having (getting) riled up about the crisis. But if it gets resolved or partially resolved to the point where it doesn’t directly affect them, people losing interest and/moving on to the next big crisis.” ((NARRATOR)) For now, Nathan Sarpal says he spends half an hour each day watching Ukraine war feeds and mostly keeps his emotions inside. Asked how he sorts truth from fiction, he admits to some guessing. ((Nathan Sarpal, Follows Ukraine’s War on Social Media)) “That’s the part I’m not 100% sure of. But I mean, I just got to trust that it’s real.” ((NARRATOR)) Meta, the company that owns Facebook and Instagram, declined VOA’s interview request, ((VIDEO: VOA)) and we haven’t heard back from YouTube, TikTok, and other social media sites we asked for comment. ((Veronica Balderas Iglesias, for VOA News, Takoma Park, Maryland))
- NewsML Media Topics Arts, Culture, Entertainment and Media
- Network VOA
- Embargo Date March 23, 2022 08:24 EDT
- Byline Vero Balderas
- Brand / Language Service Voice of America