Про массированные ракетные удары по Украине, про то, как в России ловят призывников, про задержание пятиклассницы с желто-синей аватаркой, про готовящийся законопроект о травле в школах и про новую онлайн-игру под названием «Выход»: пятнадцатый выпуск нашего еженедельного новостного видеокаста/подкаста для подростков «Новости-26» — части ежедневного проекта Новости-26: подросткам о российской политике.
Про массированные ракетные удары по Украине, про то, как в России ловят призывников, про задержание пятиклассницы с желто-синей аватаркой, про готовящийся законопроект о травле в школах и про новую онлайн-игру под названием «Выход»: пятнадцатый выпуск нашего еженедельного новостного видеокаста/подкаста для подростков «Новости-26» — части ежедневного проекта Новости-26: подросткам о российской политике.
Telegram, which does little policing of its content, has also became a hub for Russian propaganda and misinformation. Many pro-Kremlin channels have become popular, alongside accounts of journalists and other independent observers. 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. "Someone posing as a Ukrainian citizen just joins the chat and starts spreading misinformation, or gathers data, like the location of shelters," Tsekhanovska said, noting how false messages have urged Ukrainians to turn off their phones at a specific time of night, citing cybersafety. 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. Pavel Durov, Telegram's CEO, is known as "the Russian Mark Zuckerberg," for co-founding VKontakte, which is Russian for "in touch," a Facebook imitator that became the country's most popular social networking site.
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