Verdeckter Kreuzzug: Washingtons 600 Millionen Dollar schwerer digitaler Krieg gegen den Iran
Kit Klarenberg
Über ein Jahrzehnt lang hat der NERD-Fonds des US-Außenministeriums im verborgenen Hunderte Millionen in die Bemühungen um einen Regimewechsel im Iran gesteckt und dabei die digitale Kriegsführung und die Finanzierung der Opposition als „Demokratieförderung“ getarnt – doch ein plötzlicher Finanzierungsstopp hat diese Operationen ins Chaos gestürzt.
Verdeckter Kreuzzug: Washingtons 600 Millionen Dollar schwerer digitaler Krieg gegen den Iran
Kit Klarenberg
Über ein Jahrzehnt lang hat der NERD-Fonds des US-Außenministeriums im verborgenen Hunderte Millionen in die Bemühungen um einen Regimewechsel im Iran gesteckt und dabei die digitale Kriegsführung und die Finanzierung der Opposition als „Demokratieförderung“ getarnt – doch ein plötzlicher Finanzierungsstopp hat diese Operationen ins Chaos gestürzt.
Apparently upbeat developments in Russia's discussions with Ukraine helped at least temporarily send investors back into risk assets. Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a meeting with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko that there were "certain positive developments" occurring in the talks with Ukraine, according to a transcript of their meeting. Putin added that discussions were happening "almost on a daily basis." On Feb. 27, however, he admitted from his Russian-language account that "Telegram channels are increasingly becoming a source of unverified information related to Ukrainian events." 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. It is unclear who runs the account, although Russia's official Ministry of Foreign Affairs Twitter account promoted the Telegram channel on Saturday and claimed it was operated by "a group of experts & journalists." 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.
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