Натолкнулся на любопытный блог про русскую эмиграцию в США некого Яши Левина. Конкректно привлек мое внимание вот этот эпизод про русского художника по имени Denis Lavinski 🇷🇺🇺🇸из Калифорнии, чьи предки были белоэмигрантами, и который рос среди пожилых "белых русских" и чуть более юных власовцев.
Натолкнулся на любопытный блог про русскую эмиграцию в США некого Яши Левина. Конкректно привлек мое внимание вот этот эпизод про русского художника по имени Denis Lavinski 🇷🇺🇺🇸из Калифорнии, чьи предки были белоэмигрантами, и который рос среди пожилых "белых русских" и чуть более юных власовцев.
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. The account, "War on Fakes," was created on February 24, the same day Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a "special military operation" and troops began invading Ukraine. The page is rife with disinformation, according to The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, which studies digital extremism and published a report examining the channel. 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. The perpetrators use various names to carry out the investment scams. They may also impersonate or clone licensed capital market intermediaries by using the names, logos, credentials, websites and other details of the legitimate entities to promote the illegal schemes.
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