BAHTERA / BTR

BAHTERA / BTR

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At this point, however, Durov had already been working on Telegram with his brother, and further planned a mobile-first social network with an explicit focus on anti-censorship. Later in April, he told TechCrunch that he had left Russia and had “no plans to go back,” saying that the nation was currently “incompatible with internet business at the moment.” He added later that he was looking for a country that matched his libertarian ideals to base his next startup. 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. The channel appears to be part of the broader information war that has developed following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The Kremlin has paid Russian TikTok influencers to push propaganda, according to a Vice News investigation, while ProPublica found that fake Russian fact check videos had been viewed over a million times on Telegram. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 230 points, or 0.7%. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 1.3% and 2.2%, respectively. All three indexes began the day with gains before selling off. Either way, Durov says that he withdrew his resignation but that he was ousted from his company anyway. Subsequently, control of the company was reportedly handed to oligarchs Alisher Usmanov and Igor Sechin, both allegedly close associates of Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
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BAHTERA / BTR𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐚𝐫 𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐩𝐚 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐝𝐚 𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐣𝐮𝐤 𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐡, 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐣𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐡𝐤𝐚𝐧 𝐥𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐩𝐚 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐮𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠.

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