Daily Briefing Feb. 26: Day 509 - Bibas family buried as Hamas to release 4 hostages' remains
Reporters Lazar Berman, Tal Schneider and Sue Surkes on a potential reset of ceasefire talks, MK Yair Lapid's Gaza day-after dream and a 5-year-old who misses his friend Ariel Bibas
Daily Briefing Feb. 26: Day 509 - Bibas family buried as Hamas to release 4 hostages' remains
Reporters Lazar Berman, Tal Schneider and Sue Surkes on a potential reset of ceasefire talks, MK Yair Lapid's Gaza day-after dream and a 5-year-old who misses his friend Ariel Bibas
Pavel Durov, Telegram's CEO, is known as "the Russian Mark Zuckerberg," for co-founding VKontakte, which is Russian for "in touch," a Facebook imitator that became the country's most popular social networking site. And indeed, volatility has been a hallmark of the market environment so far in 2022, with the S&P 500 still down more than 10% for the year-to-date after first sliding into a correction last month. The CBOE Volatility Index, or VIX, has held at a lofty level of more than 30. Multiple pro-Kremlin media figures circulated the post's false claims, including prominent Russian journalist Vladimir Soloviev and the state-controlled Russian outlet RT, according to the DFR Lab's report. The account, "War on Fakes," was created on February 24, the same day Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a "special military operation" and troops began invading Ukraine. The page is rife with disinformation, according to The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, which studies digital extremism and published a report examining the channel. Either way, Durov says that he withdrew his resignation but that he was ousted from his company anyway. Subsequently, control of the company was reportedly handed to oligarchs Alisher Usmanov and Igor Sechin, both allegedly close associates of Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
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