Южную Африку накрыл сильнейший снегопад, продолжавшийся около 10 часов
Из-за обильных (до двух метров) осадков в ЮАР и соседнем Лесото было парализовано движение по магистральным трассам. Наибольший урон был нанесен шоссе N3, связывающему Йоханнесбург и Дурбан, где застряли несколько сотен водителей, и минимум один человек скончался от гипотермии.
Сейчас дорожное агентство страны SANRAL при помощи экстренных служб, местных жителей и НКО ведет работы по расчистке завалов на дорогах и доставке товаров первой необходимости заблокированным водителям
Южную Африку накрыл сильнейший снегопад, продолжавшийся около 10 часов
Из-за обильных (до двух метров) осадков в ЮАР и соседнем Лесото было парализовано движение по магистральным трассам. Наибольший урон был нанесен шоссе N3, связывающему Йоханнесбург и Дурбан, где застряли несколько сотен водителей, и минимум один человек скончался от гипотермии.
Сейчас дорожное агентство страны SANRAL при помощи экстренных служб, местных жителей и НКО ведет работы по расчистке завалов на дорогах и доставке товаров первой необходимости заблокированным водителям
Official government accounts have also spread fake fact checks. An official Twitter account for the Russia diplomatic mission in Geneva shared a fake debunking video claiming without evidence that "Western and Ukrainian media are creating thousands of fake news on Russia every day." The video, which has amassed almost 30,000 views, offered a "how-to" spot misinformation. For example, WhatsApp restricted the number of times a user could forward something, and developed automated systems that detect and flag objectionable content. You may recall that, back when Facebook started changing WhatsApp’s terms of service, a number of news outlets reported on, and even recommended, switching to Telegram. Pavel Durov even said that users should delete WhatsApp “unless you are cool with all of your photos and messages becoming public one day.” But Telegram can’t be described as a more-secure version of WhatsApp. Right now the digital security needs of Russians and Ukrainians are very different, and they lead to very different caveats about how to mitigate the risks associated with using Telegram. For Ukrainians in Ukraine, whose physical safety is at risk because they are in a war zone, digital security is probably not their highest priority. They may value access to news and communication with their loved ones over making sure that all of their communications are encrypted in such a manner that they are indecipherable to Telegram, its employees, or governments with court orders. 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.
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