Trump: Musk's D.O.G.E to Provide Advice from Outside Government and Release Work Report
U.S. President-elect Trump said on Thursday that a government efficiency task force led by Musk will release a report on streamlining the U.S. government. Trump said in a speech at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, "They will put out a separate report, and in the end, there will be a big report."
Trump: Musk's D.O.G.E to Provide Advice from Outside Government and Release Work Report
U.S. President-elect Trump said on Thursday that a government efficiency task force led by Musk will release a report on streamlining the U.S. government. Trump said in a speech at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, "They will put out a separate report, and in the end, there will be a big report."
"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. But the Ukraine Crisis Media Center's Tsekhanovska points out that communications are often down in zones most affected by the war, making this sort of cross-referencing a luxury many cannot afford. In 2018, Russia banned Telegram although it reversed the prohibition two years later. 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.” Some privacy experts say Telegram is not secure enough
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