🇷🇺 Chaos unfolds in Russia: A man sets fire to a post office in Leningrad Oblast, while a series of explosions rock Moscow and St. Petersburg as unknown individuals launch fireworks and firecrackers in post offices and banks. Several pensioners have been detained, with Russian media alleging "involvement of Ukrainian call centers".
🇷🇺 Chaos unfolds in Russia: A man sets fire to a post office in Leningrad Oblast, while a series of explosions rock Moscow and St. Petersburg as unknown individuals launch fireworks and firecrackers in post offices and banks. Several pensioners have been detained, with Russian media alleging "involvement of Ukrainian call centers".
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. Anastasia Vlasova/Getty Images Under the Sebi Act, the regulator has the power to carry out search and seizure of books, registers, documents including electronics and digital devices from any person associated with the securities market. In a statement, the regulator said the search and seizure operation was carried out against seven individuals and one corporate entity at multiple locations in Ahmedabad and Bhavnagar in Gujarat, Neemuch in Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, and Mumbai. 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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