Nach dem starken Abschneiden des Rassemblement National (RN, 31,5%) bei den Europawahlen kündigte Frankreichs Präsident Macron an, die Nationalversammlung (Unterhaus des französischen Parlaments) aufzulösen. Gleichzeitig setzte Macron in seiner Fernsehansprache Neuwahlen für den 30.06. und 07.07.24 an.
Nach dem starken Abschneiden des Rassemblement National (RN, 31,5%) bei den Europawahlen kündigte Frankreichs Präsident Macron an, die Nationalversammlung (Unterhaus des französischen Parlaments) aufzulösen. Gleichzeitig setzte Macron in seiner Fernsehansprache Neuwahlen für den 30.06. und 07.07.24 an.
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. 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. The message was not authentic, with the real Zelenskiy soon denying the claim on his official Telegram channel, but the incident highlighted a major problem: disinformation quickly spreads unchecked on the encrypted app. The original Telegram channel has expanded into a web of accounts for different locations, including specific pages made for individual Russian cities. There's also an English-language website, which states it is owned by the people who run the Telegram channels. That hurt tech stocks. For the past few weeks, the 10-year yield has traded between 1.72% and 2%, as traders moved into the bond for safety when Russia headlines were ugly—and out of it when headlines improved. Now, the yield is touching its pandemic-era high. If the yield breaks above that level, that could signal that it’s on a sustainable path higher. Higher long-dated bond yields make future profits less valuable—and many tech companies are valued on the basis of profits forecast for many years in the future.
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