В «нынешний век социальных сетей и мгновенной переписки через системы быстрого обмена интернет-сообщениями» человек отучается «быть скорым на слышание, медленным на слова» (Иак 1, 19). «Особенно это заметно у некоторых популярных блогеров, в том числе у некоторых популярных священников-блогеров, которые становятся в буквальном смысле слова зависимыми от одобрения своей аудитории, высказываются именно так, чтобы ей понравиться, а не так, чтобы сказать об истине или промолчать о ненужном», – сказал Предстоятель Русской Церкви.
В «нынешний век социальных сетей и мгновенной переписки через системы быстрого обмена интернет-сообщениями» человек отучается «быть скорым на слышание, медленным на слова» (Иак 1, 19). «Особенно это заметно у некоторых популярных блогеров, в том числе у некоторых популярных священников-блогеров, которые становятся в буквальном смысле слова зависимыми от одобрения своей аудитории, высказываются именно так, чтобы ей понравиться, а не так, чтобы сказать об истине или промолчать о ненужном», – сказал Предстоятель Русской Церкви.
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. 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. The War on Fakes channel has repeatedly attempted to push conspiracies that footage from Ukraine is somehow being falsified. One post on the channel from February 24 claimed without evidence that a widely viewed photo of a Ukrainian woman injured in an airstrike in the city of Chuhuiv was doctored and that the woman was seen in a different photo days later without injuries. The post, which has over 600,000 views, also baselessly claimed that the woman's blood was actually makeup or grape juice. The next bit isn’t clear, but Durov reportedly claimed that his resignation, dated March 21st, was an April Fools’ prank. TechCrunch implies that it was a matter of principle, but it’s hard to be clear on the wheres, whos and whys. Similarly, on April 17th, the Moscow Times quoted Durov as saying that he quit the company after being pressured to reveal account details about Ukrainians protesting the then-president Viktor Yanukovych. There was another possible development: Reuters also reported that Ukraine said that Belarus could soon join the invasion of Ukraine. However, the AFP, citing a Pentagon official, said the U.S. hasn’t yet seen evidence that Belarusian troops are in Ukraine.
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