Jemand, der wie ein Soldat aussieht, behauptet, dass es in #Valencia tatsächlich fünftausend Tote gibt. Er sagt, die Behörden hätten angeordnet, die Leichen der Toten zu verbrennen, damit die Bevölkerung nicht vom Ausmaß der Katastrophe erfahre. Wenn das wahr ist, verdient es einen Militärputsch.
Jemand, der wie ein Soldat aussieht, behauptet, dass es in #Valencia tatsächlich fünftausend Tote gibt. Er sagt, die Behörden hätten angeordnet, die Leichen der Toten zu verbrennen, damit die Bevölkerung nicht vom Ausmaß der Katastrophe erfahre. Wenn das wahr ist, verdient es einen Militärputsch.
Unlike Silicon Valley giants such as Facebook and Twitter, which run very public anti-disinformation programs, Brooking said: "Telegram is famously lax or absent in its content moderation policy." Either way, Durov says that he withdrew his resignation but that he was ousted from his company anyway. Subsequently, control of the company was reportedly handed to oligarchs Alisher Usmanov and Igor Sechin, both allegedly close associates of Russian leader Vladimir Putin. 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. At the start of 2018, the company attempted to launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which would enable it to enable payments (and earn the cash that comes from doing so). The initial signals were promising, especially given Telegram’s user base is already fairly crypto-savvy. It raised an initial tranche of cash – worth more than a billion dollars – to help develop the coin before opening sales to the public. Unfortunately, third-party sales of coins bought in those initial fundraising rounds raised the ire of the SEC, which brought the hammer down on the whole operation. In 2020, officials ordered Telegram to pay a fine of $18.5 million and hand back much of the cash that it had raised. 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."
from jp
