Morte di un regime: (1) la bandiera dell’opposizione issata all’ambasciata siriana a Mosca, (2) il mausoleo di Hafiz al-Assad, padre di Bashar, dato alle fiamme dai ribelli e (3) un album di famiglia appena rubato dalla residenza di Bashar al-Assad (12/2024, via Al Jazeera, Twitter/Qalaat Al Mudiq, Twitter/Qusay Noor)
Morte di un regime: (1) la bandiera dell’opposizione issata all’ambasciata siriana a Mosca, (2) il mausoleo di Hafiz al-Assad, padre di Bashar, dato alle fiamme dai ribelli e (3) un album di famiglia appena rubato dalla residenza di Bashar al-Assad (12/2024, via Al Jazeera, Twitter/Qalaat Al Mudiq, Twitter/Qusay Noor)
"And that set off kind of a battle royale for control of the platform that Durov eventually lost," said Nathalie Maréchal of the Washington advocacy group Ranking Digital Rights. Some people used the platform to organize ahead of the storming of the U.S. Capitol in January 2021, and last month Senator Mark Warner sent a letter to Durov urging him to curb Russian information operations on Telegram. Emerson Brooking, a disinformation expert at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, said: "Back in the Wild West period of content moderation, like 2014 or 2015, maybe they could have gotten away with it, but it stands in marked contrast with how other companies run themselves today." But the Ukraine Crisis Media Center's Tsekhanovska points out that communications are often down in zones most affected by the war, making this sort of cross-referencing a luxury many cannot afford. Multiple pro-Kremlin media figures circulated the post's false claims, including prominent Russian journalist Vladimir Soloviev and the state-controlled Russian outlet RT, according to the DFR Lab's report.
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