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˚₊✨✩‧🍁₊𝐀𝐧𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝₊🍁‧✩✨₊˚ Telegram | DID YOU KNOW?
Date: | ˚₊✨✩‧🍁₊𝐀𝐧𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝₊🍁‧✩✨₊˚
Telegram was co-founded by Pavel and Nikolai Durov, the brothers who had previously created VKontakte. VK is Russia’s equivalent of Facebook, a social network used for public and private messaging, audio and video sharing as well as online gaming. In January, SimpleWeb reported that VK was Russia’s fourth most-visited website, after Yandex, YouTube and Google’s Russian-language homepage. In 2016, Forbes’ Michael Solomon described Pavel Durov (pictured, below) as the “Mark Zuckerberg of Russia.” Ukrainian forces have since put up a strong resistance to the Russian troops amid the war that has left hundreds of Ukrainian civilians, including children, dead, according to the United Nations. Ukrainian and international officials have accused Russia of targeting civilian populations with shelling and bombardments. Unlike Silicon Valley giants such as Facebook and Twitter, which run very public anti-disinformation programs, Brooking said: "Telegram is famously lax or absent in its content moderation policy." 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. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been a driving force in markets for the past few weeks.
˚₊✨✩‧🍁₊𝐀𝐧𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝₊🍁‧✩✨₊˚ from CA