🟡 NOW: Raw emotion and reunions as the first freed Palestinian prisoners arrive in Ramallah, occupied West Bank. As part of today’s prisoner exchange, the Palestinian resistance secured the release of 183 Palestinians from Israeli prisons, many of kidnapped by the IDF in the Gaza strip. Many of the prisoners spent decades in Israeli prisons, facing life-sentences.
🟡 NOW: Raw emotion and reunions as the first freed Palestinian prisoners arrive in Ramallah, occupied West Bank. As part of today’s prisoner exchange, the Palestinian resistance secured the release of 183 Palestinians from Israeli prisons, many of kidnapped by the IDF in the Gaza strip. Many of the prisoners spent decades in Israeli prisons, facing life-sentences.
On December 23rd, 2020, Pavel Durov posted to his channel that the company would need to start generating revenue. In early 2021, he added that any advertising on the platform would not use user data for targeting, and that it would be focused on “large one-to-many channels.” He pledged that ads would be “non-intrusive” and that most users would simply not notice any change. 'Wild West' Also in the latest update is the ability for users to create a unique @username from the Settings page, providing others with an easy way to contact them via Search or their t.me/username link without sharing their phone number. For Oleksandra Tsekhanovska, head of the Hybrid Warfare Analytical Group at the Kyiv-based Ukraine Crisis Media Center, the effects are both near- and far-reaching. 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.
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