"تغيرت في حياتنا كثير من المفاهيم .. أدركنا أن الوضوح الشديد شيء سيء ؛ وأن الغموض مطلوب ؛ وأن الابتسامة لها أكثر من معنى ؛ وأن بعض الوجوه من حولنا ترتدي أكثر من قناع ؛ وأن مواقف بسيطة قد تجعلنا نعيد ترتيب الأشخاص من جديد .."
"تغيرت في حياتنا كثير من المفاهيم .. أدركنا أن الوضوح الشديد شيء سيء ؛ وأن الغموض مطلوب ؛ وأن الابتسامة لها أكثر من معنى ؛ وأن بعض الوجوه من حولنا ترتدي أكثر من قناع ؛ وأن مواقف بسيطة قد تجعلنا نعيد ترتيب الأشخاص من جديد .."
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. Oleksandra Matviichuk, a Kyiv-based lawyer and head of the Center for Civil Liberties, called Durov’s position "very weak," and urged concrete improvements. 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. 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. "And that set off kind of a battle royale for control of the platform that Durov eventually lost," said Nathalie Maréchal of the Washington advocacy group Ranking Digital Rights.
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