Продолжаются уголовные дела в отношении фейкометов квазиоппозиционных владимирских Telegram-каналов. Бабушке доподлинно известно, что львиную доля этих каналов снабжал своими статейками Юрий Борисов (бывший пресс-сек Владимирского отделения Единой России и бывший же нач. отдела по связям со СМИ Владимирского горсовета). Сотрудничал он в этом с другим видным единороссом прошлых лет Романом Александровым, который нынче объявлен в федеральный розыск.
Продолжаются уголовные дела в отношении фейкометов квазиоппозиционных владимирских Telegram-каналов. Бабушке доподлинно известно, что львиную доля этих каналов снабжал своими статейками Юрий Борисов (бывший пресс-сек Владимирского отделения Единой России и бывший же нач. отдела по связям со СМИ Владимирского горсовета). Сотрудничал он в этом с другим видным единороссом прошлых лет Романом Александровым, который нынче объявлен в федеральный розыск.
The next bit isn’t clear, but Durov reportedly claimed that his resignation, dated March 21st, was an April Fools’ prank. TechCrunch implies that it was a matter of principle, but it’s hard to be clear on the wheres, whos and whys. Similarly, on April 17th, the Moscow Times quoted Durov as saying that he quit the company after being pressured to reveal account details about Ukrainians protesting the then-president Viktor Yanukovych. 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. Right now the digital security needs of Russians and Ukrainians are very different, and they lead to very different caveats about how to mitigate the risks associated with using Telegram. For Ukrainians in Ukraine, whose physical safety is at risk because they are in a war zone, digital security is probably not their highest priority. They may value access to news and communication with their loved ones over making sure that all of their communications are encrypted in such a manner that they are indecipherable to Telegram, its employees, or governments with court orders. 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. Andrey, a Russian entrepreneur living in Brazil who, fearing retaliation, asked that NPR not use his last name, said Telegram has become one of the few places Russians can access independent news about the war.
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