"And incline not to those who oppress” [11: 113] Do not trust oppressors and cruel people and do not be inclined towards them. The Arabic word “rakun” means having a propensity for something and trusting somebody or something. It says that we should not trust oppressors. The result of trusting oppressors is what you see in the present time: Muslim governments and Islamic organizations trust the most oppressive and cruel elements in the world and they are seeing the consequences tangibly.
"And incline not to those who oppress” [11: 113] Do not trust oppressors and cruel people and do not be inclined towards them. The Arabic word “rakun” means having a propensity for something and trusting somebody or something. It says that we should not trust oppressors. The result of trusting oppressors is what you see in the present time: Muslim governments and Islamic organizations trust the most oppressive and cruel elements in the world and they are seeing the consequences tangibly.
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. Telegram has become more interventionist over time, and has steadily increased its efforts to shut down these accounts. But this has also meant that the company has also engaged with lawmakers more generally, although it maintains that it doesn’t do so willingly. For instance, in September 2021, Telegram reportedly blocked a chat bot in support of (Putin critic) Alexei Navalny during Russia’s most recent parliamentary elections. Pavel Durov was quoted at the time saying that the company was obliged to follow a “legitimate” law of the land. He added that as Apple and Google both follow the law, to violate it would give both platforms a reason to boot the messenger from its stores. Despite Telegram's origins, its approach to users' security has privacy advocates worried. For Oleksandra Tsekhanovska, head of the Hybrid Warfare Analytical Group at the Kyiv-based Ukraine Crisis Media Center, the effects are both near- and far-reaching. "And that set off kind of a battle royale for control of the platform that Durov eventually lost," said Nathalie Maréchal of the Washington advocacy group Ranking Digital Rights.
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