Депутат Сахалинской областной думы Александр Понажев устроил скандал из-за того, что ему пришлось лететь в общем салоне с пассажирами: «Я депутат, я могу купить себе билет бизнес-класса, но я летаю с народом. Ну мне это неприемлемо. Я не хочу лететь ни с кем». Из-за скандала рейс задержали на 1 час, а чиновника высадили с рейса. После появления ролика в сети «Единая Россия» приостановила членство депутата Понажева.
Депутат Сахалинской областной думы Александр Понажев устроил скандал из-за того, что ему пришлось лететь в общем салоне с пассажирами: «Я депутат, я могу купить себе билет бизнес-класса, но я летаю с народом. Ну мне это неприемлемо. Я не хочу лететь ни с кем». Из-за скандала рейс задержали на 1 час, а чиновника высадили с рейса. После появления ролика в сети «Единая Россия» приостановила членство депутата Понажева.
Two days after Russia invaded Ukraine, an account on the Telegram messaging platform posing as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged his armed forces to surrender. The fake Zelenskiy account reached 20,000 followers on Telegram before it was shut down, a remedial action that experts say is all too rare. 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. 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. Since its launch in 2013, Telegram has grown from a simple messaging app to a broadcast network. Its user base isn’t as vast as WhatsApp’s, and its broadcast platform is a fraction the size of Twitter, but it’s nonetheless showing its use. While Telegram has been embroiled in controversy for much of its life, it has become a vital source of communication during the invasion of Ukraine. But, if all of this is new to you, let us explain, dear friends, what on Earth a Telegram is meant to be, and why you should, or should not, need to care.
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