Mike's new book has become an unexpected smash, selling thousands of copies in its first month. The KDADS sit down to talk about the book, where it came from, and some of the ideas—lingering especially on the idea of the good king and how modernity tells you to distrust authority.
Mike's new book has become an unexpected smash, selling thousands of copies in its first month. The KDADS sit down to talk about the book, where it came from, and some of the ideas—lingering especially on the idea of the good king and how modernity tells you to distrust authority.
"Someone posing as a Ukrainian citizen just joins the chat and starts spreading misinformation, or gathers data, like the location of shelters," Tsekhanovska said, noting how false messages have urged Ukrainians to turn off their phones at a specific time of night, citing cybersafety. Telegram users are able to send files of any type up to 2GB each and access them from any device, with no limit on cloud storage, which has made downloading files more popular on the platform. The fake Zelenskiy account reached 20,000 followers on Telegram before it was shut down, a remedial action that experts say is all too rare. These entities are reportedly operating nine Telegram channels with more than five million subscribers to whom they were making recommendations on selected listed scrips. Such recommendations induced the investors to deal in the said scrips, thereby creating artificial volume and price rise. Pavel Durov, a billionaire who embraces an all-black wardrobe and is often compared to the character Neo from "the Matrix," funds Telegram through his personal wealth and debt financing. And despite being one of the world's most popular tech companies, Telegram reportedly has only about 30 employees who defer to Durov for most major decisions about the platform.
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