🇬🇧🇵🇰 My latest article: In recent days, the topic of the "grooming gang" scandal in the UK has resurfaced.
I look at how the media has lied and misrepresented data to claim Whites were the majority of perpetrators of a crime carried out almost entirely by Pakistani men.
🇬🇧🇵🇰 My latest article: In recent days, the topic of the "grooming gang" scandal in the UK has resurfaced.
I look at how the media has lied and misrepresented data to claim Whites were the majority of perpetrators of a crime carried out almost entirely by Pakistani men.
Telegram, which does little policing of its content, has also became a hub for Russian propaganda and misinformation. Many pro-Kremlin channels have become popular, alongside accounts of journalists and other independent observers. 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. Despite Telegram's origins, its approach to users' security has privacy advocates worried. In addition, Telegram's architecture limits the ability to slow the spread of false information: the lack of a central public feed, and the fact that comments are easily disabled in channels, reduce the space for public pushback. In February 2014, the Ukrainian people ousted pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych, prompting Russia to invade and annex the Crimean peninsula. By the start of April, Pavel Durov had given his notice, with TechCrunch saying at the time that the CEO had resisted pressure to suppress pages criticizing the Russian government.
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