This is my last post in 2024. Soon we will celebrate the start of 2025, a new year full of hope.
I wish you all a great new year's celebration. Followers, supporters and everyone else. Stay safe, and we will see each other tomorrow morning with a new SitRep.
This is my last post in 2024. Soon we will celebrate the start of 2025, a new year full of hope.
I wish you all a great new year's celebration. Followers, supporters and everyone else. Stay safe, and we will see each other tomorrow morning with a new SitRep.
Just days after Russia invaded Ukraine, Durov wrote that Telegram was "increasingly becoming a source of unverified information," and he worried about the app being used to "incite ethnic hatred." 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. Andrey, a Russian entrepreneur living in Brazil who, fearing retaliation, asked that NPR not use his last name, said Telegram has become one of the few places Russians can access independent news about the war. "This time we received the coordinates of enemy vehicles marked 'V' in Kyiv region," it added. Now safely in France with his spouse and three of his children, Kliuchnikov scrolls through Telegram to learn about the devastation happening in his home country.
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