Новый вице-спикер Шмидт шокировал аппарат челябинского заксобрания своими запросами. Он потребовал закрепить за собой две служебные машины и оформить постоянный пропуск в здание парламента учителю игры на гитаре, у которого планирует брать уроки. На первую просьбу он получил отказ сразу, что касается второй – в заксобрании взяли паузу на обдумывание.
Новый вице-спикер Шмидт шокировал аппарат челябинского заксобрания своими запросами. Он потребовал закрепить за собой две служебные машины и оформить постоянный пропуск в здание парламента учителю игры на гитаре, у которого планирует брать уроки. На первую просьбу он получил отказ сразу, что касается второй – в заксобрании взяли паузу на обдумывание.
Telegram, which does little policing of its content, has also became a hub for Russian propaganda and misinformation. Many pro-Kremlin channels have become popular, alongside accounts of journalists and other independent observers. Telegram does offer end-to-end encrypted communications through Secret Chats, but this is not the default setting. Standard conversations use the MTProto method, enabling server-client encryption but with them stored on the server for ease-of-access. This makes using Telegram across multiple devices simple, but also means that the regular Telegram chats you’re having with folks are not as secure as you may believe. 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. Markets continued to grapple with the economic and corporate earnings implications relating to the Russia-Ukraine conflict. “We have a ton of uncertainty right now,” said Stephanie Link, chief investment strategist and portfolio manager at Hightower Advisors. “We’re dealing with a war, we’re dealing with inflation. We don’t know what it means to earnings.” The message was not authentic, with the real Zelenskiy soon denying the claim on his official Telegram channel, but the incident highlighted a major problem: disinformation quickly spreads unchecked on the encrypted app.
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