🇸🇾 - A jihadist holed up in the crusader castle and world heritage site Krak des Chevaliers, firing HMGs mounted on a technical towards the Christian towns Anaz/Hwash, claiming they are targeting Shabiha (Assadist militant) positions in May 2013 during the Syrian civil war.
Naturally they'd say they're targeting military positions to save face in international media, but the number of murdered & injured civilians spoke for itself.
🇸🇾 - A jihadist holed up in the crusader castle and world heritage site Krak des Chevaliers, firing HMGs mounted on a technical towards the Christian towns Anaz/Hwash, claiming they are targeting Shabiha (Assadist militant) positions in May 2013 during the Syrian civil war.
Naturally they'd say they're targeting military positions to save face in international media, but the number of murdered & injured civilians spoke for itself.
In February 2014, the Ukrainian people ousted pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych, prompting Russia to invade and annex the Crimean peninsula. By the start of April, Pavel Durov had given his notice, with TechCrunch saying at the time that the CEO had resisted pressure to suppress pages criticizing the Russian government. Telegram users are able to send files of any type up to 2GB each and access them from any device, with no limit on cloud storage, which has made downloading files more popular on the platform. The gold standard of encryption, known as end-to-end encryption, where only the sender and person who receives the message are able to see it, is available on Telegram only when the Secret Chat function is enabled. Voice and video calls are also completely encrypted. In addition, Telegram's architecture limits the ability to slow the spread of false information: the lack of a central public feed, and the fact that comments are easily disabled in channels, reduce the space for public pushback. Unlike Silicon Valley giants such as Facebook and Twitter, which run very public anti-disinformation programs, Brooking said: "Telegram is famously lax or absent in its content moderation policy."
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