В Северной Осетии требуют отменить «Смешариков». Причиной скандала стала серия про осетинские пироги. Во-первых потому что о традициях осетин рассказала свинка Нюша — «грязное животное». А во-вторых из-за того, что герои ели пироги на скорость. Многие посчитали такую игру оскорблением, потому что «осетины всегда были воздержаны в еде». @banki_oil
В Северной Осетии требуют отменить «Смешариков». Причиной скандала стала серия про осетинские пироги. Во-первых потому что о традициях осетин рассказала свинка Нюша — «грязное животное». А во-вторых из-за того, что герои ели пироги на скорость. Многие посчитали такую игру оскорблением, потому что «осетины всегда были воздержаны в еде». @banki_oil
Lastly, the web previews of t.me links have been given a new look, adding chat backgrounds and design elements from the fully-features Telegram Web client. 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. The account, "War on Fakes," was created on February 24, the same day Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a "special military operation" and troops began invading Ukraine. The page is rife with disinformation, according to The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, which studies digital extremism and published a report examining the channel. Telegram has become more interventionist over time, and has steadily increased its efforts to shut down these accounts. But this has also meant that the company has also engaged with lawmakers more generally, although it maintains that it doesn’t do so willingly. For instance, in September 2021, Telegram reportedly blocked a chat bot in support of (Putin critic) Alexei Navalny during Russia’s most recent parliamentary elections. Pavel Durov was quoted at the time saying that the company was obliged to follow a “legitimate” law of the land. He added that as Apple and Google both follow the law, to violate it would give both platforms a reason to boot the messenger from its stores. Either way, Durov says that he withdrew his resignation but that he was ousted from his company anyway. Subsequently, control of the company was reportedly handed to oligarchs Alisher Usmanov and Igor Sechin, both allegedly close associates of Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
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