🇷🇺🇱🇾 Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Acting Foreign Minister at the Government of National Unity of Libya Taher al-Baour held talks on the sidelines of the UN Security Council meetings within the framework of Russia's Presidency in the UN Security Council
🇷🇺🇱🇾 Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Acting Foreign Minister at the Government of National Unity of Libya Taher al-Baour held talks on the sidelines of the UN Security Council meetings within the framework of Russia's Presidency in the UN Security Council
📍 New York, July 16, 2024
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BY Consulate General of the Russian Federation in Erbil
At its heart, Telegram is little more than a messaging app like WhatsApp or Signal. But it also offers open channels that enable a single user, or a group of users, to communicate with large numbers in a method similar to a Twitter account. This has proven to be both a blessing and a curse for Telegram and its users, since these channels can be used for both good and ill. Right now, as Wired reports, the app is a key way for Ukrainians to receive updates from the government during the invasion. It is unclear who runs the account, although Russia's official Ministry of Foreign Affairs Twitter account promoted the Telegram channel on Saturday and claimed it was operated by "a group of experts & journalists." He adds: "Telegram has become my primary news source." In the United States, Telegram's lower public profile has helped it mostly avoid high level scrutiny from Congress, but it has not gone unnoticed. Telegram has become more interventionist over time, and has steadily increased its efforts to shut down these accounts. But this has also meant that the company has also engaged with lawmakers more generally, although it maintains that it doesn’t do so willingly. For instance, in September 2021, Telegram reportedly blocked a chat bot in support of (Putin critic) Alexei Navalny during Russia’s most recent parliamentary elections. Pavel Durov was quoted at the time saying that the company was obliged to follow a “legitimate” law of the land. He added that as Apple and Google both follow the law, to violate it would give both platforms a reason to boot the messenger from its stores.
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