🇷🇺🇨🇭 Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Foreign Minister of Switzerland Ignazio Cassis hold talks on the sidelines of the UN Security Council meetings within the framework of Russia's Presidency in the UN Security Council
🇷🇺🇨🇭 Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Foreign Minister of Switzerland Ignazio Cassis hold talks on the sidelines of the UN Security Council meetings within the framework of Russia's Presidency in the UN Security Council
📍New York, July 16, 2024
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BY Consulate General of the Russian Federation in Erbil
Telegram was co-founded by Pavel and Nikolai Durov, the brothers who had previously created VKontakte. VK is Russia’s equivalent of Facebook, a social network used for public and private messaging, audio and video sharing as well as online gaming. In January, SimpleWeb reported that VK was Russia’s fourth most-visited website, after Yandex, YouTube and Google’s Russian-language homepage. In 2016, Forbes’ Michael Solomon described Pavel Durov (pictured, below) as the “Mark Zuckerberg of Russia.” Artem Kliuchnikov and his family fled Ukraine just days before the Russian invasion. READ MORE It is unclear who runs the account, although Russia's official Ministry of Foreign Affairs Twitter account promoted the Telegram channel on Saturday and claimed it was operated by "a group of experts & journalists." This ability to mix the public and the private, as well as the ability to use bots to engage with users has proved to be problematic. In early 2021, a database selling phone numbers pulled from Facebook was selling numbers for $20 per lookup. Similarly, security researchers found a network of deepfake bots on the platform that were generating images of people submitted by users to create non-consensual imagery, some of which involved children.
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