Liebe Ostdeutsche, seid Ihr 1989 dafür auf die Straßen gegangen, dass heute ein CDU-Einpeitscher namens Andreas Bühl im Thüringer Landtag ein solches Schmierentheater inszeniert? Und ein Möchtegern-Ministerpräsident Mario Voigt feist grinsend daneben sitzt?🤔 #Thueringen
Liebe Ostdeutsche, seid Ihr 1989 dafür auf die Straßen gegangen, dass heute ein CDU-Einpeitscher namens Andreas Bühl im Thüringer Landtag ein solches Schmierentheater inszeniert? Und ein Möchtegern-Ministerpräsident Mario Voigt feist grinsend daneben sitzt?🤔 #Thueringen
Telegram boasts 500 million users, who share information individually and in groups in relative security. But Telegram's use as a one-way broadcast channel — which followers can join but not reply to — means content from inauthentic accounts can easily reach large, captive and eager audiences. In 2014, Pavel Durov fled the country after allies of the Kremlin took control of the social networking site most know just as VK. Russia's intelligence agency had asked Durov to turn over the data of anti-Kremlin protesters. Durov refused to do so. 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 channel appears to be part of the broader information war that has developed following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The Kremlin has paid Russian TikTok influencers to push propaganda, according to a Vice News investigation, while ProPublica found that fake Russian fact check videos had been viewed over a million times on Telegram. He said that since his platform does not have the capacity to check all channels, it may restrict some in Russia and Ukraine "for the duration of the conflict," but then reversed course hours later after many users complained that Telegram was an important source of information.
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