โ ๐ธ๐พ/๐ช๐ฌ NEW: The leader of HTS and de-facto leader of the Syrian Transitional Government, Abu Muhammad Al-Jolani, posed for a picture with one of his close aides: Mahmoud Fathy, an Egyptian terrorist of the Muslim Brotherhood, convicted for the murder of Egypt's Prosecutor General, Hisham Barakat, in a car bombing in Cairo in 2015
โ ๐ธ๐พ/๐ช๐ฌ NEW: The leader of HTS and de-facto leader of the Syrian Transitional Government, Abu Muhammad Al-Jolani, posed for a picture with one of his close aides: Mahmoud Fathy, an Egyptian terrorist of the Muslim Brotherhood, convicted for the murder of Egypt's Prosecutor General, Hisham Barakat, in a car bombing in Cairo in 2015
In 2014, Pavel Durov fled the country after allies of the Kremlin took control of the social networking site most know just as VK. Russia's intelligence agency had asked Durov to turn over the data of anti-Kremlin protesters. Durov refused to do so. The account, "War on Fakes," was created on February 24, the same day Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a "special military operation" and troops began invading Ukraine. The page is rife with disinformation, according to The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, which studies digital extremism and published a report examining the channel. As the war in Ukraine rages, the messaging app Telegram has emerged as the go-to place for unfiltered live war updates for both Ukrainian refugees and increasingly isolated Russians alike. "Russians are really disconnected from the reality of what happening to their country," Andrey said. "So Telegram has become essential for understanding what's going on to the Russian-speaking world." 'Wild West'
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