Цены на продовольственные товары в мире по итогам октября достигли максимального уровня за последние 18 месяцев, пишет ТАСС со ссылкой на индекс цен Продовольственной и сельскохозяйственной организации Объединенных Наций (ФАО). В октябре индекс цен на продовольствие составил в среднем 127,4 пункта. Индикатор поднялся на 2% по сравнению с сентябрем и на 5,5% в годовом выражении.
Цены на продовольственные товары в мире по итогам октября достигли максимального уровня за последние 18 месяцев, пишет ТАСС со ссылкой на индекс цен Продовольственной и сельскохозяйственной организации Объединенных Наций (ФАО). В октябре индекс цен на продовольствие составил в среднем 127,4 пункта. Индикатор поднялся на 2% по сравнению с сентябрем и на 5,5% в годовом выражении.
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. Additionally, investors are often instructed to deposit monies into personal bank accounts of individuals who claim to represent a legitimate entity, and/or into an unrelated corporate account. To lend credence and to lure unsuspecting victims, perpetrators usually claim that their entity and/or the investment schemes are approved by financial authorities. "Russians are really disconnected from the reality of what happening to their country," Andrey said. "So Telegram has become essential for understanding what's going on to the Russian-speaking world." However, the perpetrators of such frauds are now adopting new methods and technologies to defraud the investors. 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.
from jp
