A senior Druze official reveals the promises of Ahmed al-Sharaa, Abu Muhammad al-Julani 👆 in a meeting last night in Damascus with representatives of the Druze community:
1. The citizens of as-Suwayda will be able to independently elect a governor for the district.
2. The Druze fighters will be registered under the Syrian Ministry of Defense and will serve within their own province (as-Suwayda).
3. A delegation will arrive from Damascus to as-Suwayda in the coming days to closely monitor the needs of the district.
## It was also reported that al-Sharaa told the Druze delegation that he knew the city of as-Suwayda and its residents and that his grandfather fought alongside the famous Druze leader Sultan Basha al-Atrash.
A senior Druze official reveals the promises of Ahmed al-Sharaa, Abu Muhammad al-Julani 👆 in a meeting last night in Damascus with representatives of the Druze community:
1. The citizens of as-Suwayda will be able to independently elect a governor for the district.
2. The Druze fighters will be registered under the Syrian Ministry of Defense and will serve within their own province (as-Suwayda).
3. A delegation will arrive from Damascus to as-Suwayda in the coming days to closely monitor the needs of the district.
## It was also reported that al-Sharaa told the Druze delegation that he knew the city of as-Suwayda and its residents and that his grandfather fought alongside the famous Druze leader Sultan Basha al-Atrash.
Telegram, which does little policing of its content, has also became a hub for Russian propaganda and misinformation. Many pro-Kremlin channels have become popular, alongside accounts of journalists and other independent observers. The gold standard of encryption, known as end-to-end encryption, where only the sender and person who receives the message are able to see it, is available on Telegram only when the Secret Chat function is enabled. Voice and video calls are also completely encrypted. To that end, when files are actively downloading, a new icon now appears in the Search bar that users can tap to view and manage downloads, pause and resume all downloads or just individual items, and select one to increase its priority or view it in a chat. Emerson Brooking, a disinformation expert at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, said: "Back in the Wild West period of content moderation, like 2014 or 2015, maybe they could have gotten away with it, but it stands in marked contrast with how other companies run themselves today." 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.
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