📌PAS готовит новый рупор пропаганды – общественный телеканал на русском языке, финансируемый из государственного бюджета.
Несмотря на закрытие независимых русскоязычных СМИ, правящая партия инициировала проект, который позволит ей продвигать свою повестку среди русскоговорящих граждан, особенно в Гагаузии и Приднестровье.
📌PAS готовит новый рупор пропаганды – общественный телеканал на русском языке, финансируемый из государственного бюджета.
Несмотря на закрытие независимых русскоязычных СМИ, правящая партия инициировала проект, который позволит ей продвигать свою повестку среди русскоговорящих граждан, особенно в Гагаузии и Приднестровье.
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 company maintains that it cannot act against individual or group chats, which are “private amongst their participants,” but it will respond to requests in relation to sticker sets, channels and bots which are publicly available. During the invasion of Ukraine, Pavel Durov has wrestled with this issue a lot more prominently than he has before. Channels like Donbass Insider and Bellum Acta, as reported by Foreign Policy, started pumping out pro-Russian propaganda as the invasion began. So much so that the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council issued a statement labeling which accounts are Russian-backed. Ukrainian officials, in potential violation of the Geneva Convention, have shared imagery of dead and captured Russian soldiers on the platform. "Like the bombing of the maternity ward in Mariupol," he said, "Even before it hits the news, you see the videos on the Telegram channels." You may recall that, back when Facebook started changing WhatsApp’s terms of service, a number of news outlets reported on, and even recommended, switching to Telegram. Pavel Durov even said that users should delete WhatsApp “unless you are cool with all of your photos and messages becoming public one day.” But Telegram can’t be described as a more-secure version of WhatsApp.
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