Daily Briefing Feb. 26: Day 509 - Bibas family buried as Hamas to release 4 hostages' remains
Reporters Lazar Berman, Tal Schneider and Sue Surkes on a potential reset of ceasefire talks, MK Yair Lapid's Gaza day-after dream and a 5-year-old who misses his friend Ariel Bibas
Daily Briefing Feb. 26: Day 509 - Bibas family buried as Hamas to release 4 hostages' remains
Reporters Lazar Berman, Tal Schneider and Sue Surkes on a potential reset of ceasefire talks, MK Yair Lapid's Gaza day-after dream and a 5-year-old who misses his friend Ariel Bibas
Stocks dropped on Friday afternoon, as gains made earlier in the day on hopes for diplomatic progress between Russia and Ukraine turned to losses. Technology stocks were hit particularly hard by higher bond yields. "For Telegram, accountability has always been a problem, which is why it was so popular even before the full-scale war with far-right extremists and terrorists from all over the world," she told AFP from her safe house outside the Ukrainian capital. He adds: "Telegram has become my primary news source." Given the pro-privacy stance of the platform, it’s taken as a given that it’ll be used for a number of reasons, not all of them good. And Telegram has been attached to a fair few scandals related to terrorism, sexual exploitation and crime. Back in 2015, Vox described Telegram as “ISIS’ app of choice,” saying that the platform’s real use is the ability to use channels to distribute material to large groups at once. Telegram has acted to remove public channels affiliated with terrorism, but Pavel Durov reiterated that he had no business snooping on private conversations. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) had carried out a similar exercise in 2017 in a matter related to circulation of messages through WhatsApp.
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