Бойцы антиправительственных группировок в Сирии захватили 25 населенных пунктов в южной и восточной части провинции Идлиб, площадь которых оценивается примерно в 388 квадратных километров — телеграм-канал сирийской оппозиции
Повстанцы взяли под свой контроль город Мааррет-эн-Нууман в Идлибе — источники Reuters в сирийской оппозиции
Бойцы антиправительственных группировок в Сирии захватили 25 населенных пунктов в южной и восточной части провинции Идлиб, площадь которых оценивается примерно в 388 квадратных километров — телеграм-канал сирийской оппозиции
Повстанцы взяли под свой контроль город Мааррет-эн-Нууман в Идлибе — источники Reuters в сирийской оппозиции
Individual messages can be fully encrypted. But the user has to turn on that function. It's not automatic, as it is on Signal and WhatsApp. 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. Given the pro-privacy stance of the platform, it’s taken as a given that it’ll be used for a number of reasons, not all of them good. And Telegram has been attached to a fair few scandals related to terrorism, sexual exploitation and crime. Back in 2015, Vox described Telegram as “ISIS’ app of choice,” saying that the platform’s real use is the ability to use channels to distribute material to large groups at once. Telegram has acted to remove public channels affiliated with terrorism, but Pavel Durov reiterated that he had no business snooping on private conversations. The fake Zelenskiy account reached 20,000 followers on Telegram before it was shut down, a remedial action that experts say is all too rare. 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.
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