Уничтожены независимые СМИ, блокируют доступ к социальным сетям. В телевизоре беснуются пропагандисты. Телеграмм остаётся единственным окном в реальный мир.
«Малюта Скуратов» видит все и честно рассказывает о том, что происходит.
Саркастические комментарии, убивающие факты, аналитика момента и завтрашнего дня. Реальность «спецоперационного» времени – как на ладони у Малюты.
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Уничтожены независимые СМИ, блокируют доступ к социальным сетям. В телевизоре беснуются пропагандисты. Телеграмм остаётся единственным окном в реальный мир.
«Малюта Скуратов» видит все и честно рассказывает о том, что происходит.
Саркастические комментарии, убивающие факты, аналитика момента и завтрашнего дня. Реальность «спецоперационного» времени – как на ладони у Малюты.
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Telegram boasts 500 million users, who share information individually and in groups in relative security. But Telegram's use as a one-way broadcast channel — which followers can join but not reply to — means content from inauthentic accounts can easily reach large, captive and eager audiences. On December 23rd, 2020, Pavel Durov posted to his channel that the company would need to start generating revenue. In early 2021, he added that any advertising on the platform would not use user data for targeting, and that it would be focused on “large one-to-many channels.” He pledged that ads would be “non-intrusive” and that most users would simply not notice any change. Pavel Durov, a billionaire who embraces an all-black wardrobe and is often compared to the character Neo from "the Matrix," funds Telegram through his personal wealth and debt financing. And despite being one of the world's most popular tech companies, Telegram reportedly has only about 30 employees who defer to Durov for most major decisions about the platform. The perpetrators use various names to carry out the investment scams. They may also impersonate or clone licensed capital market intermediaries by using the names, logos, credentials, websites and other details of the legitimate entities to promote the illegal schemes. At the start of 2018, the company attempted to launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which would enable it to enable payments (and earn the cash that comes from doing so). The initial signals were promising, especially given Telegram’s user base is already fairly crypto-savvy. It raised an initial tranche of cash – worth more than a billion dollars – to help develop the coin before opening sales to the public. Unfortunately, third-party sales of coins bought in those initial fundraising rounds raised the ire of the SEC, which brought the hammer down on the whole operation. In 2020, officials ordered Telegram to pay a fine of $18.5 million and hand back much of the cash that it had raised.
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