Morte di un regime: (1) la bandiera dell’opposizione issata all’ambasciata siriana a Mosca, (2) il mausoleo di Hafiz al-Assad, padre di Bashar, dato alle fiamme dai ribelli e (3) un album di famiglia appena rubato dalla residenza di Bashar al-Assad (12/2024, via Al Jazeera, Twitter/Qalaat Al Mudiq, Twitter/Qusay Noor)
Morte di un regime: (1) la bandiera dell’opposizione issata all’ambasciata siriana a Mosca, (2) il mausoleo di Hafiz al-Assad, padre di Bashar, dato alle fiamme dai ribelli e (3) un album di famiglia appena rubato dalla residenza di Bashar al-Assad (12/2024, via Al Jazeera, Twitter/Qalaat Al Mudiq, Twitter/Qusay Noor)
Two days after Russia invaded Ukraine, an account on the Telegram messaging platform posing as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged his armed forces to surrender. 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." 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. Also in the latest update is the ability for users to create a unique @username from the Settings page, providing others with an easy way to contact them via Search or their t.me/username link without sharing their phone number. 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.
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