Telegram наконец-то стал прибыльным. Павел Дуров сообщил, что спустя три года с момента запуска подписки Premium, мессенджер наконец начал зарабатывать, и доход превысил отметку в миллиард долларов. При этом число пользователей с платной подпиской уже достигло 12 миллионов.
«Это доказывает, что социальные сети могут быть финансово устойчивыми, оставаясь при этом независимыми и защищая права пользователей», — отметил Дуров, делая вид, что это для него не новость.
Telegram наконец-то стал прибыльным. Павел Дуров сообщил, что спустя три года с момента запуска подписки Premium, мессенджер наконец начал зарабатывать, и доход превысил отметку в миллиард долларов. При этом число пользователей с платной подпиской уже достигло 12 миллионов.
«Это доказывает, что социальные сети могут быть финансово устойчивыми, оставаясь при этом независимыми и защищая права пользователей», — отметил Дуров, делая вид, что это для него не новость.
Official government accounts have also spread fake fact checks. An official Twitter account for the Russia diplomatic mission in Geneva shared a fake debunking video claiming without evidence that "Western and Ukrainian media are creating thousands of fake news on Russia every day." The video, which has amassed almost 30,000 views, offered a "how-to" spot misinformation. Pavel Durov, a billionaire who embraces an all-black wardrobe and is often compared to the character Neo from "the Matrix," funds Telegram through his personal wealth and debt financing. And despite being one of the world's most popular tech companies, Telegram reportedly has only about 30 employees who defer to Durov for most major decisions about the platform. "We're seeing really dramatic moves, and it's all really tied to Ukraine right now, and in a secondary way, in terms of interest rates," Octavio Marenzi, CEO of Opimas, told Yahoo Finance Live on Thursday. "This war in Ukraine is going to give the Fed the ammunition, the cover that it needs, to not raise interest rates too quickly. And I think Jay Powell is a very tepid sort of inflation fighter and he's not going to do as much as he needs to do to get that under control. And this seems like an excuse to kick the can further down the road still and not do too much too soon." 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. These entities are reportedly operating nine Telegram channels with more than five million subscribers to whom they were making recommendations on selected listed scrips. Such recommendations induced the investors to deal in the said scrips, thereby creating artificial volume and price rise.
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