⚡️ На этой неделе произошло значимое событие — телеграм-каналу Белое солнце исполнилось два года 🥳
Все эти два года мы упорно шли к тому, что имеем сейчас — верных читателей, добрых коллег и индекс цитирования выше 100 единиц. Наш коллектив искренне рад, что общими усилиями получилось достичь неплохих результатов. Но всё же нет ничего важнее, чем быть полезными для своей аудитории. Полагаем, с этой задачей мы справляемся, хотя без уважаемых коллег этот путь был бы более тернистым.
⚡️ На этой неделе произошло значимое событие — телеграм-каналу Белое солнце исполнилось два года 🥳
Все эти два года мы упорно шли к тому, что имеем сейчас — верных читателей, добрых коллег и индекс цитирования выше 100 единиц. Наш коллектив искренне рад, что общими усилиями получилось достичь неплохих результатов. Но всё же нет ничего важнее, чем быть полезными для своей аудитории. Полагаем, с этой задачей мы справляемся, хотя без уважаемых коллег этот путь был бы более тернистым.
The last couple days have exemplified that uncertainty. On Thursday, news emerged that talks in Turkey between the Russia and Ukraine yielded no positive result. But on Friday, Reuters reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin said there had been some “positive shifts” in talks between the two sides. Telegram has become more interventionist over time, and has steadily increased its efforts to shut down these accounts. But this has also meant that the company has also engaged with lawmakers more generally, although it maintains that it doesn’t do so willingly. For instance, in September 2021, Telegram reportedly blocked a chat bot in support of (Putin critic) Alexei Navalny during Russia’s most recent parliamentary elections. Pavel Durov was quoted at the time saying that the company was obliged to follow a “legitimate” law of the land. He added that as Apple and Google both follow the law, to violate it would give both platforms a reason to boot the messenger from its stores. 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. 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. Stocks dropped on Friday afternoon, as gains made earlier in the day on hopes for diplomatic progress between Russia and Ukraine turned to losses. Technology stocks were hit particularly hard by higher bond yields.
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