🇩🇪🇺🇸 - After an incident in Germany today where a Saudi Arabian nationalist drove into a Christmas market killing people, comparisons are being made to the 2021 Waukesha Christmas parade incident where Darrell Brooks drove into the parade, specifically how passive the media covered the stories by acknowledging the vehicle without acknowledging the killer.
🇩🇪🇺🇸 - After an incident in Germany today where a Saudi Arabian nationalist drove into a Christmas market killing people, comparisons are being made to the 2021 Waukesha Christmas parade incident where Darrell Brooks drove into the parade, specifically how passive the media covered the stories by acknowledging the vehicle without acknowledging the killer.
"Like the bombing of the maternity ward in Mariupol," he said, "Even before it hits the news, you see the videos on the Telegram channels." Telegram boasts 500 million users, who share information individually and in groups in relative security. But Telegram's use as a one-way broadcast channel — which followers can join but not reply to — means content from inauthentic accounts can easily reach large, captive and eager audiences. Lastly, the web previews of t.me links have been given a new look, adding chat backgrounds and design elements from the fully-features Telegram Web client. Two days after Russia invaded Ukraine, an account on the Telegram messaging platform posing as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged his armed forces to surrender. The Security Service of Ukraine said in a tweet that it was able to effectively target Russian convoys near Kyiv because of messages sent to an official Telegram bot account called "STOP Russian War."
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