Слыша стрельбу возле здания Генштаба сирийской армии в Дамаске можно было бы подумать, что от происходящего позора массово стреляются местные генералы.
Но так как речь о Сирии, то увы, но нет. Скорее передрались за место на шасси российских Ил-76 — по некоторым данным, республиканская гвардия устроила перестрелку с солдатами из 4-й бронетанковой дивизией.
Слыша стрельбу возле здания Генштаба сирийской армии в Дамаске можно было бы подумать, что от происходящего позора массово стреляются местные генералы.
Но так как речь о Сирии, то увы, но нет. Скорее передрались за место на шасси российских Ил-76 — по некоторым данным, республиканская гвардия устроила перестрелку с солдатами из 4-й бронетанковой дивизией.
A Russian Telegram channel with over 700,000 followers is spreading disinformation about Russia's invasion of Ukraine under the guise of providing "objective information" and fact-checking fake news. Its influence extends beyond the platform, with major Russian publications, government officials, and journalists citing the page's posts. 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. 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. Channels are not fully encrypted, end-to-end. All communications on a Telegram channel can be seen by anyone on the channel and are also visible to Telegram. Telegram may be asked by a government to hand over the communications from a channel. Telegram has a history of standing up to Russian government requests for data, but how comfortable you are relying on that history to predict future behavior is up to you. Because Telegram has this data, it may also be stolen by hackers or leaked by an internal employee. As a result, the pandemic saw many newcomers to Telegram, including prominent anti-vaccine activists who used the app's hands-off approach to share false information on shots, a study from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue shows.
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