— 🇸🇾/🇮🇱 NEW: 'The summit of Mount Hermon is Israel's eye for monitoring near and far threats. From here, on the right, we watch Hezbollah in Lebanon, on the left, Damascus - and in front of us we see Israel - the Israeli army is here to protect the Golan and the citizens of Israel from any threat' — Israeli Defense MinisterKatz
— 🇸🇾/🇮🇱 NEW: 'The summit of Mount Hermon is Israel's eye for monitoring near and far threats. From here, on the right, we watch Hezbollah in Lebanon, on the left, Damascus - and in front of us we see Israel - the Israeli army is here to protect the Golan and the citizens of Israel from any threat' — Israeli Defense MinisterKatz
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. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) had carried out a similar exercise in 2017 in a matter related to circulation of messages through WhatsApp. Pavel Durov, Telegram's CEO, is known as "the Russian Mark Zuckerberg," for co-founding VKontakte, which is Russian for "in touch," a Facebook imitator that became the country's most popular social networking site. In December 2021, Sebi officials had conducted a search and seizure operation at the premises of certain persons carrying out similar manipulative activities through Telegram channels. In the past, it was noticed that through bulk SMSes, investors were induced to invest in or purchase the stocks of certain listed companies.
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