When Japan’s Kaikyokan Aquarium closed for renovations, a giant sunfish began experiencing health problems, stopped eating, and rubbed against its tank walls. To help, staff placed cardboard cutouts of people “watching” it. The next day, the fish regained its appetite and became more active.
When Japan’s Kaikyokan Aquarium closed for renovations, a giant sunfish began experiencing health problems, stopped eating, and rubbed against its tank walls. To help, staff placed cardboard cutouts of people “watching” it. The next day, the fish regained its appetite and became more active.
In a message on his Telegram channel recently recounting the episode, Durov wrote: "I lost my company and my home, but would do it again – without hesitation." 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. "There is a significant risk of insider threat or hacking of Telegram systems that could expose all of these chats to the Russian government," said Eva Galperin with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has called for Telegram to improve its privacy practices. Individual messages can be fully encrypted. But the user has to turn on that function. It's not automatic, as it is on Signal and WhatsApp. 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.
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