📌The 1st BRAINet SURGE Event (Sharing Unique Roadmaps of Great Expertise)
🔆Inspirational Talk with Q&A
🔆Dr. Mostafa Baskaya - Tenured Professor of Neorological Surgery at the University of Wisconsin - Director of Skull Base Surgery Program at the University of Wisconsin
📌The 1st BRAINet SURGE Event (Sharing Unique Roadmaps of Great Expertise)
🔆Inspirational Talk with Q&A
🔆Dr. Mostafa Baskaya - Tenured Professor of Neorological Surgery at the University of Wisconsin - Director of Skull Base Surgery Program at the University of Wisconsin
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. 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. Emerson Brooking, a disinformation expert at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, said: "Back in the Wild West period of content moderation, like 2014 or 2015, maybe they could have gotten away with it, but it stands in marked contrast with how other companies run themselves today." WhatsApp, a rival messaging platform, introduced some measures to counter disinformation when Covid-19 was first sweeping the world. Oh no. There’s a certain degree of myth-making around what exactly went on, so take everything that follows lightly. Telegram was originally launched as a side project by the Durov brothers, with Nikolai handling the coding and Pavel as CEO, while both were at VK.
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