Mais Poderosos do que os Estados A jornalista Christine Kerdellant chama a atenção para o fato de que seis bilionários - Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Sergey Brin e Larry Page - detêm um poder sistêmico e, em certas áreas, estão substituindo ou se opondo aos Estados, sem que ninguém consiga detê-los. Eles não foram eleitos, não prestam contas a ninguém e decidem o que é bom para os cidadãos. Por isso, alerta, eles representam uma ameaça à democracia.
Mais Poderosos do que os Estados A jornalista Christine Kerdellant chama a atenção para o fato de que seis bilionários - Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Sergey Brin e Larry Page - detêm um poder sistêmico e, em certas áreas, estão substituindo ou se opondo aos Estados, sem que ninguém consiga detê-los. Eles não foram eleitos, não prestam contas a ninguém e decidem o que é bom para os cidadãos. Por isso, alerta, eles representam uma ameaça à democracia.
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. The message was not authentic, with the real Zelenskiy soon denying the claim on his official Telegram channel, but the incident highlighted a major problem: disinformation quickly spreads unchecked on the encrypted app. Overall, extreme levels of fear in the market seems to have morphed into something more resembling concern. For example, the Cboe Volatility Index fell from its 2022 peak of 36, which it hit Monday, to around 30 on Friday, a sign of easing tensions. Meanwhile, while the price of WTI crude oil slipped from Sunday’s multiyear high $130 of barrel to $109 a pop. Markets have been expecting heavy restrictions on Russian oil, some of which the U.S. has already imposed, and that would reduce the global supply and bring about even more burdensome inflation. 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. The channel appears to be part of the broader information war that has developed following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The Kremlin has paid Russian TikTok influencers to push propaganda, according to a Vice News investigation, while ProPublica found that fake Russian fact check videos had been viewed over a million times on Telegram.
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