This is part one in what will be a short explainer of CVRs and the types of analysis that can be done with them.
Diving into the CVRs at the request of one of our followers. This topic was widely discussed among our circles over the last few years, but there is always something more to learn.
I will follow up in a couple/few days with a deeper dive on the subject.
This is part one in what will be a short explainer of CVRs and the types of analysis that can be done with them.
Diving into the CVRs at the request of one of our followers. This topic was widely discussed among our circles over the last few years, but there is always something more to learn.
I will follow up in a couple/few days with a deeper dive on the subject.
As the war in Ukraine rages, the messaging app Telegram has emerged as the go-to place for unfiltered live war updates for both Ukrainian refugees and increasingly isolated Russians alike. You may recall that, back when Facebook started changing WhatsApp’s terms of service, a number of news outlets reported on, and even recommended, switching to Telegram. Pavel Durov even said that users should delete WhatsApp “unless you are cool with all of your photos and messages becoming public one day.” But Telegram can’t be described as a more-secure version of WhatsApp. On Feb. 27, however, he admitted from his Russian-language account that "Telegram channels are increasingly becoming a source of unverified information related to Ukrainian events." 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. "There are several million Russians who can lift their head up from propaganda and try to look for other sources, and I'd say that most look for it on Telegram," he said.
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