Heute ist der 40. Todestag meines Großvaters Constantin (rechts im Bild). Aus diesem Anlass habe ich einen Artikel für die Siebenbürgische Zeitung über sein Leben und Werk geschrieben.
Wenn sich jemand an die Tuschinskis in Schäßburg erinnert und/oder Erinnerungsstücke, Fotos etc hat, freue ich mich ganz besonders über eine Nachricht :)
Heute ist der 40. Todestag meines Großvaters Constantin (rechts im Bild). Aus diesem Anlass habe ich einen Artikel für die Siebenbürgische Zeitung über sein Leben und Werk geschrieben.
Wenn sich jemand an die Tuschinskis in Schäßburg erinnert und/oder Erinnerungsstücke, Fotos etc hat, freue ich mich ganz besonders über eine Nachricht :)
On February 27th, Durov posted that Channels were becoming a source of unverified information and that the company lacks the ability to check on their veracity. He urged users to be mistrustful of the things shared on Channels, and initially threatened to block the feature in the countries involved for the length of the war, saying that he didn’t want Telegram to be used to aggravate conflict or incite ethnic hatred. He did, however, walk back this plan when it became clear that they had also become a vital communications tool for Ukrainian officials and citizens to help coordinate their resistance and evacuations. 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." In 2014, Pavel Durov fled the country after allies of the Kremlin took control of the social networking site most know just as VK. Russia's intelligence agency had asked Durov to turn over the data of anti-Kremlin protesters. Durov refused to do so. At its heart, Telegram is little more than a messaging app like WhatsApp or Signal. But it also offers open channels that enable a single user, or a group of users, to communicate with large numbers in a method similar to a Twitter account. This has proven to be both a blessing and a curse for Telegram and its users, since these channels can be used for both good and ill. Right now, as Wired reports, the app is a key way for Ukrainians to receive updates from the government during the invasion. 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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