Statement von @Bundeskanzler Scholz zum Aufktakt der #KonzertierteAktion: Wir stehen vor einer historischen Herausforderung. Gewerkschaften, Verbände, Bundesbank, Wissenschaft und Regierung wollen sich gemeinsam dieser Aufgabe stellen. https://t.co/SKb5iiAVnv— Steffen Hebestreit (@RegSprecher) Jul 4, 2022
Statement von @Bundeskanzler Scholz zum Aufktakt der #KonzertierteAktion: Wir stehen vor einer historischen Herausforderung. Gewerkschaften, Verbände, Bundesbank, Wissenschaft und Regierung wollen sich gemeinsam dieser Aufgabe stellen. https://t.co/SKb5iiAVnv— Steffen Hebestreit (@RegSprecher) Jul 4, 2022
Emerson Brooking, a disinformation expert at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, said: "Back in the Wild West period of content moderation, like 2014 or 2015, maybe they could have gotten away with it, but it stands in marked contrast with how other companies run themselves today." The company maintains that it cannot act against individual or group chats, which are “private amongst their participants,” but it will respond to requests in relation to sticker sets, channels and bots which are publicly available. During the invasion of Ukraine, Pavel Durov has wrestled with this issue a lot more prominently than he has before. Channels like Donbass Insider and Bellum Acta, as reported by Foreign Policy, started pumping out pro-Russian propaganda as the invasion began. So much so that the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council issued a statement labeling which accounts are Russian-backed. Ukrainian officials, in potential violation of the Geneva Convention, have shared imagery of dead and captured Russian soldiers on the platform. Ukrainian forces have since put up a strong resistance to the Russian troops amid the war that has left hundreds of Ukrainian civilians, including children, dead, according to the United Nations. Ukrainian and international officials have accused Russia of targeting civilian populations with shelling and bombardments. 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 fake Zelenskiy account reached 20,000 followers on Telegram before it was shut down, a remedial action that experts say is all too rare.
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