Bundesaußenministerin Annalena #Baerbock hat den CDU-Kanzlerkandidaten Friedrich #Merz wegen seiner Grenzschutzpläne scharf angegriffen. Merz wolle „Europarecht brechen und einen Zaun um #Deutschland bauen“, sagte sie am Montag am Rande eines EU-Außenministertreffens in Brüssel. „Wenn wir damit anfangen, dann geht Europa kaputt.“
Die Union wolle „Deutschland komplett abriegeln“, sagte Baerbock. Das behindere den täglichen wirtschaftlichen Pendelverkehr in die Nachbarländer. „Zäune oder Mauern“ zu bauen, sei nach ihrer Überzeugung keine Idee, die über den Wahlkampf hinausreichen könne.
Bundesaußenministerin Annalena #Baerbock hat den CDU-Kanzlerkandidaten Friedrich #Merz wegen seiner Grenzschutzpläne scharf angegriffen. Merz wolle „Europarecht brechen und einen Zaun um #Deutschland bauen“, sagte sie am Montag am Rande eines EU-Außenministertreffens in Brüssel. „Wenn wir damit anfangen, dann geht Europa kaputt.“
Die Union wolle „Deutschland komplett abriegeln“, sagte Baerbock. Das behindere den täglichen wirtschaftlichen Pendelverkehr in die Nachbarländer. „Zäune oder Mauern“ zu bauen, sei nach ihrer Überzeugung keine Idee, die über den Wahlkampf hinausreichen könne.
A Russian Telegram channel with over 700,000 followers is spreading disinformation about Russia's invasion of Ukraine under the guise of providing "objective information" and fact-checking fake news. Its influence extends beyond the platform, with major Russian publications, government officials, and journalists citing the page's posts. 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. Telegram has become more interventionist over time, and has steadily increased its efforts to shut down these accounts. But this has also meant that the company has also engaged with lawmakers more generally, although it maintains that it doesn’t do so willingly. For instance, in September 2021, Telegram reportedly blocked a chat bot in support of (Putin critic) Alexei Navalny during Russia’s most recent parliamentary elections. Pavel Durov was quoted at the time saying that the company was obliged to follow a “legitimate” law of the land. He added that as Apple and Google both follow the law, to violate it would give both platforms a reason to boot the messenger from its stores. Perpetrators of these scams will create a public group on Telegram to promote these investment packages that are usually accompanied by fake testimonies and sometimes advertised as being Shariah-compliant. Interested investors will be asked to directly message the representatives to begin investing in the various investment packages offered. 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.
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