𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐚 𝐇𝐮𝐧𝐭

𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐚 𝐇𝐮𝐧𝐭

𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐚 𝐇𝐮𝐧𝐭 Telegram | DID YOU KNOW?

In February 2014, the Ukrainian people ousted pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych, prompting Russia to invade and annex the Crimean peninsula. By the start of April, Pavel Durov had given his notice, with TechCrunch saying at the time that the CEO had resisted pressure to suppress pages criticizing the Russian government. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video message on Tuesday that Ukrainian forces "destroy the invaders wherever we can." On February 27th, Durov posted that Channels were becoming a source of unverified information and that the company lacks the ability to check on their veracity. He urged users to be mistrustful of the things shared on Channels, and initially threatened to block the feature in the countries involved for the length of the war, saying that he didn’t want Telegram to be used to aggravate conflict or incite ethnic hatred. He did, however, walk back this plan when it became clear that they had also become a vital communications tool for Ukrainian officials and citizens to help coordinate their resistance and evacuations. At the start of 2018, the company attempted to launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which would enable it to enable payments (and earn the cash that comes from doing so). The initial signals were promising, especially given Telegram’s user base is already fairly crypto-savvy. It raised an initial tranche of cash – worth more than a billion dollars – to help develop the coin before opening sales to the public. Unfortunately, third-party sales of coins bought in those initial fundraising rounds raised the ire of the SEC, which brought the hammer down on the whole operation. In 2020, officials ordered Telegram to pay a fine of $18.5 million and hand back much of the cash that it had raised. At its heart, Telegram is little more than a messaging app like WhatsApp or Signal. But it also offers open channels that enable a single user, or a group of users, to communicate with large numbers in a method similar to a Twitter account. This has proven to be both a blessing and a curse for Telegram and its users, since these channels can be used for both good and ill. Right now, as Wired reports, the app is a key way for Ukrainians to receive updates from the government during the invasion.
𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐚 𝐇𝐮𝐧𝐭 from cn

𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐚 𝐇𝐮𝐧𝐭ೃ༄ 𝟏𝟗𝟖𝟗┊She's a southern angel under 𝗜𝗠𝗚 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 who has the spirit of a wolf that belongs only to herself, to the earth and to the dark. The angel called by the name, 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐚 𝐇𝐮𝐧𝐭.

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