🔹 Refuse (verb) = Say "no" to something offered or requested (отказываться). 🔹 Decline (verb) = Politely refuse or reduce in value/quantity (вежливо отказываться). 🔹 Reject (verb) = Dismiss something as not good enough or suitable (отвергать). 🔹 Deny (verb) = State something is not true or refuse to admit something (отрицать, отказать в доступе).
🎯Examples:
- He refused to answer the question during the interview. - I had to decline the invitation because of a prior commitment. - The company rejected the candidate’s application due to lack of experience. - She denied stealing the documents, insisting she was innocent. - He refused to give up, no matter the obstacles. - Sales have declined slightly this quarter compared to the last one. - The team rejected the new proposal, saying it lacked key details. - The suspect denied all allegations during the interrogation.
🔹 Refuse (verb) = Say "no" to something offered or requested (отказываться). 🔹 Decline (verb) = Politely refuse or reduce in value/quantity (вежливо отказываться). 🔹 Reject (verb) = Dismiss something as not good enough or suitable (отвергать). 🔹 Deny (verb) = State something is not true or refuse to admit something (отрицать, отказать в доступе).
🎯Examples:
- He refused to answer the question during the interview. - I had to decline the invitation because of a prior commitment. - The company rejected the candidate’s application due to lack of experience. - She denied stealing the documents, insisting she was innocent. - He refused to give up, no matter the obstacles. - Sales have declined slightly this quarter compared to the last one. - The team rejected the new proposal, saying it lacked key details. - The suspect denied all allegations during the interrogation.
The next bit isn’t clear, but Durov reportedly claimed that his resignation, dated March 21st, was an April Fools’ prank. TechCrunch implies that it was a matter of principle, but it’s hard to be clear on the wheres, whos and whys. Similarly, on April 17th, the Moscow Times quoted Durov as saying that he quit the company after being pressured to reveal account details about Ukrainians protesting the then-president Viktor Yanukovych. This ability to mix the public and the private, as well as the ability to use bots to engage with users has proved to be problematic. In early 2021, a database selling phone numbers pulled from Facebook was selling numbers for $20 per lookup. Similarly, security researchers found a network of deepfake bots on the platform that were generating images of people submitted by users to create non-consensual imagery, some of which involved children. At this point, however, Durov had already been working on Telegram with his brother, and further planned a mobile-first social network with an explicit focus on anti-censorship. Later in April, he told TechCrunch that he had left Russia and had “no plans to go back,” saying that the nation was currently “incompatible with internet business at the moment.” He added later that he was looking for a country that matched his libertarian ideals to base his next startup. In the United States, Telegram's lower public profile has helped it mostly avoid high level scrutiny from Congress, but it has not gone unnoticed. 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.
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