US Antisemitism Czar Deborah Lipstadt reveals she's deeply concerned about ethnic cleansing in the Middle East – not Israel ethnically cleansing Gaza – the threat that Jews could possibly be ethnically cleansed from MENA/Europe.
US Antisemitism Czar Deborah Lipstadt reveals she's deeply concerned about ethnic cleansing in the Middle East – not Israel ethnically cleansing Gaza – the threat that Jews could possibly be ethnically cleansed from MENA/Europe.
Just days after Russia invaded Ukraine, Durov wrote that Telegram was "increasingly becoming a source of unverified information," and he worried about the app being used to "incite ethnic hatred." Although some channels have been removed, the curation process is considered opaque and insufficient by analysts. But the Ukraine Crisis Media Center's Tsekhanovska points out that communications are often down in zones most affected by the war, making this sort of cross-referencing a luxury many cannot afford. Channels are not fully encrypted, end-to-end. All communications on a Telegram channel can be seen by anyone on the channel and are also visible to Telegram. Telegram may be asked by a government to hand over the communications from a channel. Telegram has a history of standing up to Russian government requests for data, but how comfortable you are relying on that history to predict future behavior is up to you. Because Telegram has this data, it may also be stolen by hackers or leaked by an internal employee. "There are a lot of things that Telegram could have been doing this whole time. And they know exactly what they are and they've chosen not to do them. That's why I don't trust them," she said.
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