«С 1830 года в Чувашской Республике бушевала эпидемия холеры. В то время подобные болезни назывались поветриями. Согласно местным верованиям, поветрия приносились из других стран ветрами или притекали по воде. Люди считали, что болезни — это злые духи, обитающие в воде, продуктах питания, домашних предметах и одежде, откуда они затем нападали на человека».
«С 1830 года в Чувашской Республике бушевала эпидемия холеры. В то время подобные болезни назывались поветриями. Согласно местным верованиям, поветрия приносились из других стран ветрами или притекали по воде. Люди считали, что болезни — это злые духи, обитающие в воде, продуктах питания, домашних предметах и одежде, откуда они затем нападали на человека».
A Russian Telegram channel with over 700,000 followers is spreading disinformation about Russia's invasion of Ukraine under the guise of providing "objective information" and fact-checking fake news. Its influence extends beyond the platform, with major Russian publications, government officials, and journalists citing the page's posts. 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. 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. The account, "War on Fakes," was created on February 24, the same day Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a "special military operation" and troops began invading Ukraine. The page is rife with disinformation, according to The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, which studies digital extremism and published a report examining the channel. Artem Kliuchnikov and his family fled Ukraine just days before the Russian invasion.
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