Суд присяжных в Ирландии признал бывшего чемпиона Абсолютного бойцовского чемпионата (UFC) в двух весовых категориях Конора Макгрегора виновным по делу об изнасиловании в 2018 году. В соответствии с решением суда спортсмен должен будет выплатить пострадавшей €250 000 в качестве компенсации. Макгрегор не согласен с обвинениями и намерен обжаловать приговор. @ctrs2018
Суд присяжных в Ирландии признал бывшего чемпиона Абсолютного бойцовского чемпионата (UFC) в двух весовых категориях Конора Макгрегора виновным по делу об изнасиловании в 2018 году. В соответствии с решением суда спортсмен должен будет выплатить пострадавшей €250 000 в качестве компенсации. Макгрегор не согласен с обвинениями и намерен обжаловать приговор. @ctrs2018
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. 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. Again, in contrast to Facebook, Google and Twitter, Telegram's founder Pavel Durov runs his company in relative secrecy from Dubai. Asked about its stance on disinformation, Telegram spokesperson Remi Vaughn told AFP: "As noted by our CEO, the sheer volume of information being shared on channels makes it extremely difficult to verify, so it's important that users double-check what they read." And indeed, volatility has been a hallmark of the market environment so far in 2022, with the S&P 500 still down more than 10% for the year-to-date after first sliding into a correction last month. The CBOE Volatility Index, or VIX, has held at a lofty level of more than 30.
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