Ioannidis, 4.9.2024: "Ich stand damals in Kontakt mit sehr vielen Top-Epidemiologen der Welt, die sich an mich gewandt haben. Sie meinten zur mir, dass ist unglaublich, was hier gerade passiert, aber wir können nichts sagen. Wenn wir widersprechen würden, würden wir augenblicklich zerstört." Quelle:https://sound.orf.at/podcast/oe1/dimensionen/john-ioannidis-das-gewissen-der-wissenschaft
Ioannidis, 4.9.2024: "Ich stand damals in Kontakt mit sehr vielen Top-Epidemiologen der Welt, die sich an mich gewandt haben. Sie meinten zur mir, dass ist unglaublich, was hier gerade passiert, aber wir können nichts sagen. Wenn wir widersprechen würden, würden wir augenblicklich zerstört." Quelle:https://sound.orf.at/podcast/oe1/dimensionen/john-ioannidis-das-gewissen-der-wissenschaft
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. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) had carried out a similar exercise in 2017 in a matter related to circulation of messages through WhatsApp. 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. 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. This ability to mix the public and the private, as well as the ability to use bots to engage with users has proved to be problematic. In early 2021, a database selling phone numbers pulled from Facebook was selling numbers for $20 per lookup. Similarly, security researchers found a network of deepfake bots on the platform that were generating images of people submitted by users to create non-consensual imagery, some of which involved children.
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