К сожалению, та воронка насилия, террора и экстремизма, которая разверзлась на Украине, будет затягивать нас всех еще долго. И надо признать, что все, кто так или иначе с ней связан - происхождением, через родственников и знакомых потенциально могут быть использованы в таких целях. И не надо тешить себя иллюзией, что это вдруг прекратиться после перемирия от американцев. Это всерьёз и надолго - война с террором и нацизмом.
К сожалению, та воронка насилия, террора и экстремизма, которая разверзлась на Украине, будет затягивать нас всех еще долго. И надо признать, что все, кто так или иначе с ней связан - происхождением, через родственников и знакомых потенциально могут быть использованы в таких целях. И не надо тешить себя иллюзией, что это вдруг прекратиться после перемирия от американцев. Это всерьёз и надолго - война с террором и нацизмом.
Telegram was co-founded by Pavel and Nikolai Durov, the brothers who had previously created VKontakte. VK is Russia’s equivalent of Facebook, a social network used for public and private messaging, audio and video sharing as well as online gaming. In January, SimpleWeb reported that VK was Russia’s fourth most-visited website, after Yandex, YouTube and Google’s Russian-language homepage. In 2016, Forbes’ Michael Solomon described Pavel Durov (pictured, below) as the “Mark Zuckerberg of Russia.” He said that since his platform does not have the capacity to check all channels, it may restrict some in Russia and Ukraine "for the duration of the conflict," but then reversed course hours later after many users complained that Telegram was an important source of information. 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. The War on Fakes channel has repeatedly attempted to push conspiracies that footage from Ukraine is somehow being falsified. One post on the channel from February 24 claimed without evidence that a widely viewed photo of a Ukrainian woman injured in an airstrike in the city of Chuhuiv was doctored and that the woman was seen in a different photo days later without injuries. The post, which has over 600,000 views, also baselessly claimed that the woman's blood was actually makeup or grape juice. Russian President Vladimir Putin launched Russia's invasion of Ukraine in the early-morning hours of February 24, targeting several key cities with military strikes.
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