В это воскресенье Уругвай изберёт президента во втором туре.
Предвыборная кампания была довольно скучной, речи размеренными, кандидаты предсказуемыми; Социальные сети не наполнены оскорблениями и практически не распространяются фейковые новости.
В этой стране нет Хавьера Милея, который называет своих соперников «дерьмовыми левыми», или Жаира Болсонару, которого обвиняют в попытке государственного переворота, и уж тем более Дональда Трампа. Уругвай — старомодная демократия, «последняя оставшаяся в Латинской Америке», — говорит Херардо Каэтано, историк и политолог. Уругвайцы это знают и гордятся этим.
В это воскресенье Уругвай изберёт президента во втором туре.
Предвыборная кампания была довольно скучной, речи размеренными, кандидаты предсказуемыми; Социальные сети не наполнены оскорблениями и практически не распространяются фейковые новости.
В этой стране нет Хавьера Милея, который называет своих соперников «дерьмовыми левыми», или Жаира Болсонару, которого обвиняют в попытке государственного переворота, и уж тем более Дональда Трампа. Уругвай — старомодная демократия, «последняя оставшаяся в Латинской Америке», — говорит Херардо Каэтано, историк и политолог. Уругвайцы это знают и гордятся этим.
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. 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. In addition, Telegram now supports the use of third-party streaming tools like OBS Studio and XSplit to broadcast live video, allowing users to add overlays and multi-screen layouts for a more professional look. The company maintains that it cannot act against individual or group chats, which are “private amongst their participants,” but it will respond to requests in relation to sticker sets, channels and bots which are publicly available. During the invasion of Ukraine, Pavel Durov has wrestled with this issue a lot more prominently than he has before. Channels like Donbass Insider and Bellum Acta, as reported by Foreign Policy, started pumping out pro-Russian propaganda as the invasion began. So much so that the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council issued a statement labeling which accounts are Russian-backed. Ukrainian officials, in potential violation of the Geneva Convention, have shared imagery of dead and captured Russian soldiers on the platform. As a result, the pandemic saw many newcomers to Telegram, including prominent anti-vaccine activists who used the app's hands-off approach to share false information on shots, a study from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue shows.
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