{"id":593856,"date":"2026-10-25T17:58:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T14:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=593856"},"modified":"2026-10-25T18:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T15:45:14","slug":"human-rights-defenders-warn-of-fake-homiel-spring-chatbots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/human-rights-defenders-warn-of-fake-homiel-spring-chatbots","title":{"rendered":"Human Rights Defenders Warn of Fake Homiel Spring Chatbots"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Human rights defenders from Homiel Spring have <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/viasnaHomel\/14361\">warned<\/a> about fake chatbots on Telegram that could be used to target people seeking assistance.<\/p>\n<p>According to the group, two fake chatbots named \u201cHomiel Spring\u201d have been found on the messaging platform. They use the same avatar as the organisation\u2019s genuine Telegram channel.<\/p>\n<p>Homiel Spring suspects that the bots may have been created by security officials to identify people who contact human rights defenders for help and subsequently target them. The group stressed that it has only two official contact channels: the <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/Homiel_Bot\">Homiel_Bot<\/a> chatbot and the <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/homelspring\">Telegram account<\/a> of Viasna\u2019s Homiel branch.<\/p>\n<p>The group also recalled that the Belarusian authorities have designated human rights organisations as \u201cextremist formations\u201d, and that security agencies may interpret contacting them as \u201cfacilitating extremist activities\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights defenders from Homiel Spring have warned about fake chatbots on Telegram that could be used to target people seeking assistance. According to the group, two fake chatbots named \u201cHomiel Spring\u201d have been found on the messaging platform. They use the same avatar as the organisation\u2019s genuine Telegram channel. Homiel Spring suspects that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6ade240f81c7e.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Human Rights Defenders Warn of Fake Homiel Spring Chatbots"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-politics"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593857,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593856\/revisions\/593857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}