๐ท๐ธ Around 30,000 protesters took to the streets of Belgrade to oppose President Vuฤiฤโs government, according to police reports. Unofficial estimates suggest the number was closer to 100,000. While Ukrainians know Vuฤiฤ for his pro-Russian stance, Serbians are protesting corruption within his administration.
๐ท๐ธ Around 30,000 protesters took to the streets of Belgrade to oppose President Vuฤiฤโs government, according to police reports. Unofficial estimates suggest the number was closer to 100,000. While Ukrainians know Vuฤiฤ for his pro-Russian stance, Serbians are protesting corruption within his administration.
Elsewhere, version 8.6 of Telegram integrates the in-app camera option into the gallery, while a new navigation bar gives quick access to photos, files, location sharing, and more. 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. The channel appears to be part of the broader information war that has developed following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The Kremlin has paid Russian TikTok influencers to push propaganda, according to a Vice News investigation, while ProPublica found that fake Russian fact check videos had been viewed over a million times on Telegram. The company maintains that it cannot act against individual or group chats, which are โprivate amongst their participants,โ 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. As a result, the pandemic saw many newcomers to Telegram, including prominent anti-vaccine activists who used the app's hands-off approach to share false information on shots, a study from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue shows.
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