— 🇸🇾/🇮🇱 NEW: 'The summit of Mount Hermon is Israel's eye for monitoring near and far threats. From here, on the right, we watch Hezbollah in Lebanon, on the left, Damascus - and in front of us we see Israel - the Israeli army is here to protect the Golan and the citizens of Israel from any threat' — Israeli Defense MinisterKatz
— 🇸🇾/🇮🇱 NEW: 'The summit of Mount Hermon is Israel's eye for monitoring near and far threats. From here, on the right, we watch Hezbollah in Lebanon, on the left, Damascus - and in front of us we see Israel - the Israeli army is here to protect the Golan and the citizens of Israel from any threat' — Israeli Defense MinisterKatz
On Feb. 27, however, he admitted from his Russian-language account that "Telegram channels are increasingly becoming a source of unverified information related to Ukrainian events." Again, in contrast to Facebook, Google and Twitter, Telegram's founder Pavel Durov runs his company in relative secrecy from Dubai. This ability to mix the public and the private, as well as the ability to use bots to engage with users has proved to be problematic. In early 2021, a database selling phone numbers pulled from Facebook was selling numbers for $20 per lookup. Similarly, security researchers found a network of deepfake bots on the platform that were generating images of people submitted by users to create non-consensual imagery, some of which involved children. Soloviev also promoted the channel in a post he shared on his own Telegram, which has 580,000 followers. The post recommended his viewers subscribe to "War on Fakes" in a time of fake news. You may recall that, back when Facebook started changing WhatsApp’s terms of service, a number of news outlets reported on, and even recommended, switching to Telegram. Pavel Durov even said that users should delete WhatsApp “unless you are cool with all of your photos and messages becoming public one day.” But Telegram can’t be described as a more-secure version of WhatsApp.
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