🇺🇸🇵🇸🇨🇳⚡️- Mainstream conservative and pro-Israel media in the United States have been pushing a story of a Chinese student, Liu Lijun, being arrested and her visa revoked for pro-Palestine demonstrations at the University of California Los Angeles.
The original FOX News clip comes from May 2024 of a pro-Palestine campus protester of Asian descent being arrested and unmasked by authorities.
In fact, there has been no expulsion or deportation of this student, and this story is false.
🇺🇸🇵🇸🇨🇳⚡️- Mainstream conservative and pro-Israel media in the United States have been pushing a story of a Chinese student, Liu Lijun, being arrested and her visa revoked for pro-Palestine demonstrations at the University of California Los Angeles.
The original FOX News clip comes from May 2024 of a pro-Palestine campus protester of Asian descent being arrested and unmasked by authorities.
In fact, there has been no expulsion or deportation of this student, and this story is false.
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. Since January 2022, the SC has received a total of 47 complaints and enquiries on illegal investment schemes promoted through Telegram. These fraudulent schemes offer non-existent investment opportunities, promising very attractive and risk-free returns within a short span of time. They commonly offer unrealistic returns of as high as 1,000% within 24 hours or even within a few hours. 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. Telegram was founded in 2013 by two Russian brothers, Nikolai and Pavel Durov. Recently, Durav wrote on his Telegram channel that users' right to privacy, in light of the war in Ukraine, is "sacred, now more than ever."
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