Von Propaganda, Bürgerräten und simulierter Demokratie
Die Ampel zimmert sich Scheinparlamente passend zur Politik, die sie durchsetzen möchte. Gleichzeitig wird jede Regierungskritik zur Kritik an der Demokratie an sich verunglimpft. Der öffentlich-rechtliche Rundfunk macht selbstredend mit. Ein Kommentar von Ulrich Clauß.
Von Propaganda, Bürgerräten und simulierter Demokratie
Die Ampel zimmert sich Scheinparlamente passend zur Politik, die sie durchsetzen möchte. Gleichzeitig wird jede Regierungskritik zur Kritik an der Demokratie an sich verunglimpft. Der öffentlich-rechtliche Rundfunk macht selbstredend mit. Ein Kommentar von Ulrich Clauß.
Telegram was co-founded by Pavel and Nikolai Durov, the brothers who had previously created VKontakte. VK is Russia’s equivalent of Facebook, a social network used for public and private messaging, audio and video sharing as well as online gaming. In January, SimpleWeb reported that VK was Russia’s fourth most-visited website, after Yandex, YouTube and Google’s Russian-language homepage. In 2016, Forbes’ Michael Solomon described Pavel Durov (pictured, below) as the “Mark Zuckerberg of Russia.” Again, in contrast to Facebook, Google and Twitter, Telegram's founder Pavel Durov runs his company in relative secrecy from Dubai. This ability to mix the public and the private, as well as the ability to use bots to engage with users has proved to be problematic. In early 2021, a database selling phone numbers pulled from Facebook was selling numbers for $20 per lookup. Similarly, security researchers found a network of deepfake bots on the platform that were generating images of people submitted by users to create non-consensual imagery, some of which involved children. Unlike Silicon Valley giants such as Facebook and Twitter, which run very public anti-disinformation programs, Brooking said: "Telegram is famously lax or absent in its content moderation policy." For tech stocks, “the main thing is yields,” Essaye said.
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