Издательство «Альпина нон-фикшн» выпустило книгу Майкла Слепяна, посвященную тому, сколь важную роль в нашей личной и общественной жизни играют всевозможные секреты. Публикуем отрывок из нее.
Издательство «Альпина нон-фикшн» выпустило книгу Майкла Слепяна, посвященную тому, сколь важную роль в нашей личной и общественной жизни играют всевозможные секреты. Публикуем отрывок из нее.
At its heart, Telegram is little more than a messaging app like WhatsApp or Signal. But it also offers open channels that enable a single user, or a group of users, to communicate with large numbers in a method similar to a Twitter account. This has proven to be both a blessing and a curse for Telegram and its users, since these channels can be used for both good and ill. Right now, as Wired reports, the app is a key way for Ukrainians to receive updates from the government during the invasion. "The result is on this photo: fiery 'greetings' to the invaders," the Security Service of Ukraine wrote alongside a photo showing several military vehicles among plumes of black smoke. I want a secure messaging app, should I use Telegram? 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. He said that since his platform does not have the capacity to check all channels, it may restrict some in Russia and Ukraine "for the duration of the conflict," but then reversed course hours later after many users complained that Telegram was an important source of information.
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