Во многом именно по причине ускорения вывода производств корпораций Запада из Китая, позиция страны в международных делах в последнее время стала гораздо более антизападной. Впрочем, это очень взаимосвязанный процесс, процесс возвращения сборочных производств обратно на Запад или перевода их в лояльные ему страны значимо ускорился вследствие антизападной риторики и политики КНР в последнее десятилетие.
Во многом именно по причине ускорения вывода производств корпораций Запада из Китая, позиция страны в международных делах в последнее время стала гораздо более антизападной. Впрочем, это очень взаимосвязанный процесс, процесс возвращения сборочных производств обратно на Запад или перевода их в лояльные ему страны значимо ускорился вследствие антизападной риторики и политики КНР в последнее десятилетие.
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. 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. 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. On December 23rd, 2020, Pavel Durov posted to his channel that the company would need to start generating revenue. In early 2021, he added that any advertising on the platform would not use user data for targeting, and that it would be focused on “large one-to-many channels.” He pledged that ads would be “non-intrusive” and that most users would simply not notice any change. Some people used the platform to organize ahead of the storming of the U.S. Capitol in January 2021, and last month Senator Mark Warner sent a letter to Durov urging him to curb Russian information operations on Telegram.
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