🚢🛢️ A number of coastal states of the Baltic and North Seas (🇬🇧UK, 🇩🇰Denmark, 🇸🇪Sweden, 🇫🇮Finland, 🇵🇱Poland and 🇪🇪Estonia) have agreed on joint measures to combat the Russian shadow fleet. The group will conduct regular inspections of shadow fleet vessels, — Finnish MFA
🚢🛢️ A number of coastal states of the Baltic and North Seas (🇬🇧UK, 🇩🇰Denmark, 🇸🇪Sweden, 🇫🇮Finland, 🇵🇱Poland and 🇪🇪Estonia) have agreed on joint measures to combat the Russian shadow fleet. The group will conduct regular inspections of shadow fleet vessels, — Finnish MFA
One thing that Telegram now offers to all users is the ability to “disappear” messages or set remote deletion deadlines. That enables users to have much more control over how long people can access what you’re sending them. Given that Russian law enforcement officials are reportedly (via Insider) stopping people in the street and demanding to read their text messages, this could be vital to protect individuals from reprisals. Asked about its stance on disinformation, Telegram spokesperson Remi Vaughn told AFP: "As noted by our CEO, the sheer volume of information being shared on channels makes it extremely difficult to verify, so it's important that users double-check what they read." The company maintains that it cannot act against individual or group chats, which are “private amongst their participants,” but it will respond to requests in relation to sticker sets, channels and bots which are publicly available. During the invasion of Ukraine, Pavel Durov has wrestled with this issue a lot more prominently than he has before. Channels like Donbass Insider and Bellum Acta, as reported by Foreign Policy, started pumping out pro-Russian propaganda as the invasion began. So much so that the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council issued a statement labeling which accounts are Russian-backed. Ukrainian officials, in potential violation of the Geneva Convention, have shared imagery of dead and captured Russian soldiers on the platform. Crude oil prices edged higher after tumbling on Thursday, when U.S. West Texas intermediate slid back below $110 per barrel after topping as much as $130 a barrel in recent sessions. Still, gas prices at the pump rose to fresh highs. "We as Ukrainians believe that the truth is on our side, whether it's truth that you're proclaiming about the war and everything else, why would you want to hide it?," he said.
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