"Украинские войска убилии спалили моих знакомых. И когда выходила их диверсионно-разведывательная группа, убили моих соседей, — застрелили. Мы их похоронили здесь у нас, дома.
С 2022 года ВСУ останавливали на блокпостах и национальность спрашивали. Я говорю, национальность — русский. Они говорят, нельзя так говорить. Говорю, а как надо быть говорить? — Украинец российского происхождения."
"Украинские войска убилии спалили моих знакомых. И когда выходила их диверсионно-разведывательная группа, убили моих соседей, — застрелили. Мы их похоронили здесь у нас, дома.
С 2022 года ВСУ останавливали на блокпостах и национальность спрашивали. Я говорю, национальность — русский. Они говорят, нельзя так говорить. Говорю, а как надо быть говорить? — Украинец российского происхождения."
Artem Kliuchnikov and his family fled Ukraine just days before the Russian invasion. The message was not authentic, with the real Zelenskiy soon denying the claim on his official Telegram channel, but the incident highlighted a major problem: disinformation quickly spreads unchecked on the encrypted app. 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.” Now safely in France with his spouse and three of his children, Kliuchnikov scrolls through Telegram to learn about the devastation happening in his home country. On February 27th, Durov posted that Channels were becoming a source of unverified information and that the company lacks the ability to check on their veracity. He urged users to be mistrustful of the things shared on Channels, and initially threatened to block the feature in the countries involved for the length of the war, saying that he didn’t want Telegram to be used to aggravate conflict or incite ethnic hatred. He did, however, walk back this plan when it became clear that they had also become a vital communications tool for Ukrainian officials and citizens to help coordinate their resistance and evacuations.
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