—𝘽𝙪𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙨.

—𝘽𝙪𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙨.

—𝘽𝙪𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙨. Telegram | DID YOU KNOW?

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. The company maintains that it cannot act against individual or group chats, which are “private amongst their participants,” but it will respond to requests in relation to sticker sets, channels and bots which are publicly available. During the invasion of Ukraine, Pavel Durov has wrestled with this issue a lot more prominently than he has before. Channels like Donbass Insider and Bellum Acta, as reported by Foreign Policy, started pumping out pro-Russian propaganda as the invasion began. So much so that the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council issued a statement labeling which accounts are Russian-backed. Ukrainian officials, in potential violation of the Geneva Convention, have shared imagery of dead and captured Russian soldiers on the platform. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 230 points, or 0.7%. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 1.3% and 2.2%, respectively. All three indexes began the day with gains before selling off. Now safely in France with his spouse and three of his children, Kliuchnikov scrolls through Telegram to learn about the devastation happening in his home country. In the United States, Telegram's lower public profile has helped it mostly avoid high level scrutiny from Congress, but it has not gone unnoticed.
—𝘽𝙪𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙨. from hk

—𝘽𝙪𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙨.── ⋆ 𝙁𝙤𝙧 𝙃𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙮𝙬𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙘𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙗𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙨 ៹ ★.

─ ⋆ 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘤𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘺 .

─ ⋆ @katevxbot .

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