🇧🇴⚡️❗️ — URGENT: Opposition leaders in Bolivia (from center-left, center, center-right, and far-right parties) meet to form an alliance ahead of the presidential elections, taking advantage of the deep division within the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) between Evo Morales and Luis Arce.
🇧🇴⚡️❗️ — URGENT: Opposition leaders in Bolivia (from center-left, center, center-right, and far-right parties) meet to form an alliance ahead of the presidential elections, taking advantage of the deep division within the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) between Evo Morales and Luis Arce.
Again, in contrast to Facebook, Google and Twitter, Telegram's founder Pavel Durov runs his company in relative secrecy from Dubai. Pavel Durov, a billionaire who embraces an all-black wardrobe and is often compared to the character Neo from "the Matrix," funds Telegram through his personal wealth and debt financing. And despite being one of the world's most popular tech companies, Telegram reportedly has only about 30 employees who defer to Durov for most major decisions about the platform. Some people used the platform to organize ahead of the storming of the U.S. Capitol in January 2021, and last month Senator Mark Warner sent a letter to Durov urging him to curb Russian information operations on Telegram. Just days after Russia invaded Ukraine, Durov wrote that Telegram was "increasingly becoming a source of unverified information," and he worried about the app being used to "incite ethnic hatred." Stocks closed in the red Friday as investors weighed upbeat remarks from Russian President Vladimir Putin about diplomatic discussions with Ukraine against a weaker-than-expected print on U.S. consumer sentiment.
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