About two years after the factory was built, plans surfaced to expand the 300-acre site by another 130 acres. In response, activists have been occupying the #forest adjacent to the #Gigafactory since February. This week, after nine months the occupation was evicted. It was suspected that there were bombs from the world wars in the forest area. It was said that it would be necessary to leave the forest, for some days, as long as it would take to search for the explosives.
About two years after the factory was built, plans surfaced to expand the 300-acre site by another 130 acres. In response, activists have been occupying the #forest adjacent to the #Gigafactory since February. This week, after nine months the occupation was evicted. It was suspected that there were bombs from the world wars in the forest area. It was said that it would be necessary to leave the forest, for some days, as long as it would take to search for the explosives.
Sebi said data, emails and other documents are being retrieved from the seized devices and detailed investigation is in progress. At this point, however, Durov had already been working on Telegram with his brother, and further planned a mobile-first social network with an explicit focus on anti-censorship. Later in April, he told TechCrunch that he had left Russia and had “no plans to go back,” saying that the nation was currently “incompatible with internet business at the moment.” He added later that he was looking for a country that matched his libertarian ideals to base his next startup. Overall, extreme levels of fear in the market seems to have morphed into something more resembling concern. For example, the Cboe Volatility Index fell from its 2022 peak of 36, which it hit Monday, to around 30 on Friday, a sign of easing tensions. Meanwhile, while the price of WTI crude oil slipped from Sunday’s multiyear high $130 of barrel to $109 a pop. Markets have been expecting heavy restrictions on Russian oil, some of which the U.S. has already imposed, and that would reduce the global supply and bring about even more burdensome inflation. On December 23rd, 2020, Pavel Durov posted to his channel that the company would need to start generating revenue. In early 2021, he added that any advertising on the platform would not use user data for targeting, and that it would be focused on “large one-to-many channels.” He pledged that ads would be “non-intrusive” and that most users would simply not notice any change. Such instructions could actually endanger people — citizens receive air strike warnings via smartphone alerts.
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