πΈπ°π Over 15,000 protesters in Bratislava held banners and chanted slogans accusing Fico of dragging the country towards Russia after he met Putin last month amid a gas dispute with Ukraine, - Reuters
βοΈ"Slovakia is Europe, we are not Russia," "Slovakia stands with Ukraine", "Enough of Russia!", "Shame!".
πΈπ°π Over 15,000 protesters in Bratislava held banners and chanted slogans accusing Fico of dragging the country towards Russia after he met Putin last month amid a gas dispute with Ukraine, - Reuters
βοΈ"Slovakia is Europe, we are not Russia," "Slovakia stands with Ukraine", "Enough of Russia!", "Shame!".
Since its launch in 2013, Telegram has grown from a simple messaging app to a broadcast network. Its user base isnβt as vast as WhatsAppβs, and its broadcast platform is a fraction the size of Twitter, but itβs 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. Emerson Brooking, a disinformation expert at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, said: "Back in the Wild West period of content moderation, like 2014 or 2015, maybe they could have gotten away with it, but it stands in marked contrast with how other companies run themselves today." Pavel Durov, Telegram's CEO, is known as "the Russian Mark Zuckerberg," for co-founding VKontakte, which is Russian for "in touch," a Facebook imitator that became the country's most popular social networking site. Messages are not fully encrypted by default. That means the company could, in theory, access the content of the messages, or be forced to hand over the data at the request of a government. As a result, the pandemic saw many newcomers to Telegram, including prominent anti-vaccine activists who used the app's hands-off approach to share false information on shots, a study from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue shows.
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