I just thought about the fact that now, in the time of social media, you constantly see footage of the current ongoing wars. Scrolling through my feed constantly see images and videos form Israel and Ukraine. And other than in older wars, the footage is not only carefully crafted propaganda, but also things normal soldiers shot on their phones. So the question came up which impact this new source of intel has on the actual ongoing combat. How many people have died because of social media posts? Have there been IRL stream snipes?
Yes, during the first few months of the Russian invasion of Ukraine there was an airstrike on a school gymnasium that was serving as a muster point for volunteer troops. One (likely more) of the people posted a tik-tok of the gym and even hashtagged it so it was easily found and geolocated.