Hey everyone! Yeah, we know - it sounds a little weird, but this week, we’re doing crossword puzzles. We’ll solve some together, test our word skills, and maybe even pick up some new tricky words. Got a crossword you like? Bring it along! Let’s see if we can stump each other.
Hey everyone! Yeah, we know - it sounds a little weird, but this week, we’re doing crossword puzzles. We’ll solve some together, test our word skills, and maybe even pick up some new tricky words. Got a crossword you like? Bring it along! Let’s see if we can stump each other.
Some people used the platform to organize ahead of the storming of the U.S. Capitol in January 2021, and last month Senator Mark Warner sent a letter to Durov urging him to curb Russian information operations on Telegram. Two days after Russia invaded Ukraine, an account on the Telegram messaging platform posing as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged his armed forces to surrender. 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. 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. Andrey, a Russian entrepreneur living in Brazil who, fearing retaliation, asked that NPR not use his last name, said Telegram has become one of the few places Russians can access independent news about the war.
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