Продолжаю выполнять добровольную функцию амплификатора русскоязычных политиков Германии (кстати, периодически натыкаюсь на новые голоса, а вы вот кого знаете? напишите в комменты!). Поэтому рекомендую подписаться на новый формат "Привет, Брюссель" (я бы, конечно, называл "Брюссель, ку-ку", но меня не спрашивали), где Сергей Лагодинский стал соведущим. Тут два плюса - во-первых, европейская политика это отдельная вселенная, и гораздо бОльшая чем сумма политик национальных, а во-вторых, давно не слышал Сергея регулярно и на русском.
Продолжаю выполнять добровольную функцию амплификатора русскоязычных политиков Германии (кстати, периодически натыкаюсь на новые голоса, а вы вот кого знаете? напишите в комменты!). Поэтому рекомендую подписаться на новый формат "Привет, Брюссель" (я бы, конечно, называл "Брюссель, ку-ку", но меня не спрашивали), где Сергей Лагодинский стал соведущим. Тут два плюса - во-первых, европейская политика это отдельная вселенная, и гораздо бОльшая чем сумма политик национальных, а во-вторых, давно не слышал Сергея регулярно и на русском.
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.” On February 27th, Durov posted that Channels were becoming a source of unverified information and that the company lacks the ability to check on their veracity. He urged users to be mistrustful of the things shared on Channels, and initially threatened to block the feature in the countries involved for the length of the war, saying that he didn’t want Telegram to be used to aggravate conflict or incite ethnic hatred. He did, however, walk back this plan when it became clear that they had also become a vital communications tool for Ukrainian officials and citizens to help coordinate their resistance and evacuations. 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." The company maintains that it cannot act against individual or group chats, which are “private amongst their participants,” but it will respond to requests in relation to sticker sets, channels and bots which are publicly available. During the invasion of Ukraine, Pavel Durov has wrestled with this issue a lot more prominently than he has before. Channels like Donbass Insider and Bellum Acta, as reported by Foreign Policy, started pumping out pro-Russian propaganda as the invasion began. So much so that the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council issued a statement labeling which accounts are Russian-backed. Ukrainian officials, in potential violation of the Geneva Convention, have shared imagery of dead and captured Russian soldiers on the platform. "And that set off kind of a battle royale for control of the platform that Durov eventually lost," said Nathalie Maréchal of the Washington advocacy group Ranking Digital Rights.
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