🇺🇸👨🚒 Wildfires TORCH parts of Los Angeles, while the city’s DEI-focused leadership prioritizes “diversity” over safety, exemplified by the appointment of its first LGBTQI+ female fire chief, who admitted her hiring practices are based on the same DEI quotas that got her the job.
🇺🇸👨🚒 Wildfires TORCH parts of Los Angeles, while the city’s DEI-focused leadership prioritizes “diversity” over safety, exemplified by the appointment of its first LGBTQI+ female fire chief, who admitted her hiring practices are based on the same DEI quotas that got her the job.
He floated the idea of restricting the use of Telegram in Ukraine and Russia, a suggestion that was met with fierce opposition from users. Shortly after, Durov backed off the idea. "Someone posing as a Ukrainian citizen just joins the chat and starts spreading misinformation, or gathers data, like the location of shelters," Tsekhanovska said, noting how false messages have urged Ukrainians to turn off their phones at a specific time of night, citing cybersafety. "And that set off kind of a battle royale for control of the platform that Durov eventually lost," said Nathalie Maréchal of the Washington advocacy group Ranking Digital Rights. Official government accounts have also spread fake fact checks. An official Twitter account for the Russia diplomatic mission in Geneva shared a fake debunking video claiming without evidence that "Western and Ukrainian media are creating thousands of fake news on Russia every day." The video, which has amassed almost 30,000 views, offered a "how-to" spot misinformation. These entities are reportedly operating nine Telegram channels with more than five million subscribers to whom they were making recommendations on selected listed scrips. Such recommendations induced the investors to deal in the said scrips, thereby creating artificial volume and price rise.
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