Trotz massiver Störungen durch Vertreter der etablierten Politik haben wir am heutigen Jahrestag des Mauerbaus mit einer Veranstaltung der Opfer des DDR-Regimes gedacht. Dabei haben wir ungeachtet aller vorhandenen Unterschiede auch auf die autoritären Tendenzen in der Bundesrepublik des Jahres 2024 hingewiesen.
Trotz massiver Störungen durch Vertreter der etablierten Politik haben wir am heutigen Jahrestag des Mauerbaus mit einer Veranstaltung der Opfer des DDR-Regimes gedacht. Dabei haben wir ungeachtet aller vorhandenen Unterschiede auch auf die autoritären Tendenzen in der Bundesrepublik des Jahres 2024 hingewiesen.
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. The War on Fakes channel has repeatedly attempted to push conspiracies that footage from Ukraine is somehow being falsified. One post on the channel from February 24 claimed without evidence that a widely viewed photo of a Ukrainian woman injured in an airstrike in the city of Chuhuiv was doctored and that the woman was seen in a different photo days later without injuries. The post, which has over 600,000 views, also baselessly claimed that the woman's blood was actually makeup or grape juice. Given the pro-privacy stance of the platform, it’s taken as a given that it’ll be used for a number of reasons, not all of them good. And Telegram has been attached to a fair few scandals related to terrorism, sexual exploitation and crime. Back in 2015, Vox described Telegram as “ISIS’ app of choice,” saying that the platform’s real use is the ability to use channels to distribute material to large groups at once. Telegram has acted to remove public channels affiliated with terrorism, but Pavel Durov reiterated that he had no business snooping on private conversations. "He has to start being more proactive and to find a real solution to this situation, not stay in standby without interfering. It's a very irresponsible position from the owner of Telegram," she said. Telegram, which does little policing of its content, has also became a hub for Russian propaganda and misinformation. Many pro-Kremlin channels have become popular, alongside accounts of journalists and other independent observers.
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