🇸🇾🇸🇾 - Talkalakh, Syria: Link to a profile from social media reports on the same was found which allegedly shows his Facebook account. The most recent post includes open threats to administrators of a Facebook page & commenters who are speaking up about the crimes & atrocities. From the post: "Their names have been distributed to our men on the ground & not online, and I say publicly that we will punish every one of them & send him to his village telling them this is the punishment for what someone from your family has done, inform your entire village".
🇸🇾🇸🇾 - Talkalakh, Syria: Link to a profile from social media reports on the same was found which allegedly shows his Facebook account. The most recent post includes open threats to administrators of a Facebook page & commenters who are speaking up about the crimes & atrocities. From the post: "Their names have been distributed to our men on the ground & not online, and I say publicly that we will punish every one of them & send him to his village telling them this is the punishment for what someone from your family has done, inform your entire village".
DFR Lab sent the image through Microsoft Azure's Face Verification program and found that it was "highly unlikely" that the person in the second photo was the same as the first woman. The fact-checker Logically AI also found the claim to be false. The woman, Olena Kurilo, was also captured in a video after the airstrike and shown to have the injuries. The message was not authentic, with the real Zelenskiy soon denying the claim on his official Telegram channel, but the incident highlighted a major problem: disinformation quickly spreads unchecked on the encrypted app. Pavel Durov, a billionaire who embraces an all-black wardrobe and is often compared to the character Neo from "the Matrix," funds Telegram through his personal wealth and debt financing. And despite being one of the world's most popular tech companies, Telegram reportedly has only about 30 employees who defer to Durov for most major decisions about the platform. In the past, it was noticed that through bulk SMSes, investors were induced to invest in or purchase the stocks of certain listed companies. Stocks dropped on Friday afternoon, as gains made earlier in the day on hopes for diplomatic progress between Russia and Ukraine turned to losses. Technology stocks were hit particularly hard by higher bond yields.
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