A Scottish university has urged its students to report “misinformation” after one of its academics was accused of spreading Russian propaganda.
Tim Hayward, professor of environmental theory at the University of Edinburgh, retweeted a Russian representative to the UN who claimed that reports the country had bombed a maternity hospital in Mariupol, western Ukraine, were “#fakenews”.
Kvitka Perenents, a Ukrainian student at the university who has family members fighting in the war, raised an official complaint. “The moment we start to equate the two sides in the story is the moment we lose our humanity,” she told BBC Radio 4. “The oppressor — in this case, Russia — should not be given the same kind of platform as those who are being oppressed.”
