🇸🇾🇸🇾 - Talkalakh, Syria: Link to a profile from social media reports on the same was found which allegedly shows his Facebook account. The most recent post includes open threats to administrators of a Facebook page & commenters who are speaking up about the crimes & atrocities. From the post: "Their names have been distributed to our men on the ground & not online, and I say publicly that we will punish every one of them & send him to his village telling them this is the punishment for what someone from your family has done, inform your entire village".
🇸🇾🇸🇾 - Talkalakh, Syria: Link to a profile from social media reports on the same was found which allegedly shows his Facebook account. The most recent post includes open threats to administrators of a Facebook page & commenters who are speaking up about the crimes & atrocities. From the post: "Their names have been distributed to our men on the ground & not online, and I say publicly that we will punish every one of them & send him to his village telling them this is the punishment for what someone from your family has done, inform your entire village".
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. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been a driving force in markets for the past few weeks. 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." 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. As such, the SC would like to remind investors to always exercise caution when evaluating investment opportunities, especially those promising unrealistically high returns with little or no risk. Investors should also never deposit money into someone’s personal bank account if instructed.
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