Фентанил — наркотик, который ежегодно убивает 70 тысяч человек — больше, чем на некоторых войнах. Согласно опросам, это одна из главнейших проблем в США — для американцев она важнее, чем конфликты в Украине и Газе. Наркотик заполонил улицы Штатов 12 лет назад, а теперь его всё чаще находят в Европе — особенно в странах Балтии. Мы узнали у экспертов, может ли фентанил оказаться в России, что сейчас происходит с опиоидной эпидемией в США и почему американские чиновники обвиняют Китай в новых опиумных войнах.
Фентанил — наркотик, который ежегодно убивает 70 тысяч человек — больше, чем на некоторых войнах. Согласно опросам, это одна из главнейших проблем в США — для американцев она важнее, чем конфликты в Украине и Газе. Наркотик заполонил улицы Штатов 12 лет назад, а теперь его всё чаще находят в Европе — особенно в странах Балтии. Мы узнали у экспертов, может ли фентанил оказаться в России, что сейчас происходит с опиоидной эпидемией в США и почему американские чиновники обвиняют Китай в новых опиумных войнах.
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 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. 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. "There are a lot of things that Telegram could have been doing this whole time. And they know exactly what they are and they've chosen not to do them. That's why I don't trust them," she said. In addition, Telegram's architecture limits the ability to slow the spread of false information: the lack of a central public feed, and the fact that comments are easily disabled in channels, reduce the space for public pushback.
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