„USAID war in Wahrheit (auch) ein Instrument, um Medien und Politik im Ausland zu manipulieren. Um Demokratie und „unabhängige Medien“ in aller Welt zu stärken, unterstützte USAID in mehr als 30 Ländern 6200 Journalisten (etwa durch Weiterbildungsprogramme), 707 Medien und 279 NGOs, die sich vorwiegend mit Themen der Pressefreiheit beschäftigten. Das sind Zahlen, die „Reporter ohne Grenzen“ nennt.“
„USAID war in Wahrheit (auch) ein Instrument, um Medien und Politik im Ausland zu manipulieren. Um Demokratie und „unabhängige Medien“ in aller Welt zu stärken, unterstützte USAID in mehr als 30 Ländern 6200 Journalisten (etwa durch Weiterbildungsprogramme), 707 Medien und 279 NGOs, die sich vorwiegend mit Themen der Pressefreiheit beschäftigten. Das sind Zahlen, die „Reporter ohne Grenzen“ nennt.“
Friday’s performance was part of a larger shift. For the week, the Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq fell 2%, 2.9%, and 3.5%, respectively. The S&P 500 fell 1.3% to 4,204.36, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 0.7% to 32,943.33. The Dow posted a fifth straight weekly loss — its longest losing streak since 2019. The Nasdaq Composite tumbled 2.2% to 12,843.81. Though all three indexes opened in the green, stocks took a turn after a new report showed U.S. consumer sentiment deteriorated more than expected in early March as consumers' inflation expectations soared to the highest since 1981. Two days after Russia invaded Ukraine, an account on the Telegram messaging platform posing as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged his armed forces to surrender. 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." 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.
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