"Finn Mccool Comes to Aid the Fianna" Finn MacCool, last leader of the Fianna Éireann, in an illustration by Stephen Reid from The High Deeds of Finn, and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland, by T.W. Rolleston, c. 1910.
"Finn Mccool Comes to Aid the Fianna" Finn MacCool, last leader of the Fianna Éireann, in an illustration by Stephen Reid from The High Deeds of Finn, and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland, by T.W. Rolleston, c. 1910.
The account, "War on Fakes," was created on February 24, the same day Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a "special military operation" and troops began invading Ukraine. The page is rife with disinformation, according to The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, which studies digital extremism and published a report examining the channel. Emerson Brooking, a disinformation expert at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, said: "Back in the Wild West period of content moderation, like 2014 or 2015, maybe they could have gotten away with it, but it stands in marked contrast with how other companies run themselves today." 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. 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. He adds: "Telegram has become my primary news source."
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