Alex Thomson 🇬🇧▐ Matthew Ehret 🇨🇦▐ Brian Gerrish 🇬🇧▐ Debi Evans 🇬🇧▐ Whitney Webb 🇺🇸▐ James Bush 🇺🇸▐ Dr. Silvia Behrendt 🇦🇹▐ Dr. Astrid Stuckelberger🇨🇭▐
Alex Thomson 🇬🇧▐ Matthew Ehret 🇨🇦▐ Brian Gerrish 🇬🇧▐ Debi Evans 🇬🇧▐ Whitney Webb 🇺🇸▐ James Bush 🇺🇸▐ Dr. Silvia Behrendt 🇦🇹▐ Dr. Astrid Stuckelberger🇨🇭▐
Anastasia Vlasova/Getty Images Investors took profits on Friday while they could ahead of the weekend, explained Tom Essaye, founder of Sevens Report Research. Saturday and Sunday could easily bring unfortunate news on the war front—and traders would rather be able to sell any recent winnings at Friday’s earlier prices than wait for a potentially lower price at Monday’s open. Again, in contrast to Facebook, Google and Twitter, Telegram's founder Pavel Durov runs his company in relative secrecy from Dubai. 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. Given the pro-privacy stance of the platform, it’s taken as a given that it’ll be used for a number of reasons, not all of them good. And Telegram has been attached to a fair few scandals related to terrorism, sexual exploitation and crime. Back in 2015, Vox described Telegram as “ISIS’ app of choice,” saying that the platform’s real use is the ability to use channels to distribute material to large groups at once. Telegram has acted to remove public channels affiliated with terrorism, but Pavel Durov reiterated that he had no business snooping on private conversations.
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