От 5 до 30 тысяч рублей вымогают у москвичей санитары и сотрудники ГБУ "Ритуал" за возможность в последний раз взглянуть на родственников, умерших от коронавируса. По данным оперштаба, на 24 сентября в Москве выявлено 280408 случаев заболевания, 5115 человек скончались.
От 5 до 30 тысяч рублей вымогают у москвичей санитары и сотрудники ГБУ "Ритуал" за возможность в последний раз взглянуть на родственников, умерших от коронавируса. По данным оперштаба, на 24 сентября в Москве выявлено 280408 случаев заболевания, 5115 человек скончались.
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. Just days after Russia invaded Ukraine, Durov wrote that Telegram was "increasingly becoming a source of unverified information," and he worried about the app being used to "incite ethnic hatred." Official government accounts have also spread fake fact checks. An official Twitter account for the Russia diplomatic mission in Geneva shared a fake debunking video claiming without evidence that "Western and Ukrainian media are creating thousands of fake news on Russia every day." The video, which has amassed almost 30,000 views, offered a "how-to" spot misinformation. 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 message was not authentic, with the real Zelenskiy soon denying the claim on his official Telegram channel, but the incident highlighted a major problem: disinformation quickly spreads unchecked on the encrypted app.
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