🇸🇾🇸🇾 - Talkalakh, Syria: Link to a profile from social media reports on the same was found which allegedly shows his Facebook account. The most recent post includes open threats to administrators of a Facebook page & commenters who are speaking up about the crimes & atrocities. From the post: "Their names have been distributed to our men on the ground & not online, and I say publicly that we will punish every one of them & send him to his village telling them this is the punishment for what someone from your family has done, inform your entire village".
🇸🇾🇸🇾 - Talkalakh, Syria: Link to a profile from social media reports on the same was found which allegedly shows his Facebook account. The most recent post includes open threats to administrators of a Facebook page & commenters who are speaking up about the crimes & atrocities. From the post: "Their names have been distributed to our men on the ground & not online, and I say publicly that we will punish every one of them & send him to his village telling them this is the punishment for what someone from your family has done, inform your entire village".
But because group chats and the channel features are not end-to-end encrypted, Galperin said user privacy is potentially under threat. 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. 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. He said that since his platform does not have the capacity to check all channels, it may restrict some in Russia and Ukraine "for the duration of the conflict," but then reversed course hours later after many users complained that Telegram was an important source of information. Telegram was co-founded by Pavel and Nikolai Durov, the brothers who had previously created VKontakte. VK is Russia’s equivalent of Facebook, a social network used for public and private messaging, audio and video sharing as well as online gaming. In January, SimpleWeb reported that VK was Russia’s fourth most-visited website, after Yandex, YouTube and Google’s Russian-language homepage. In 2016, Forbes’ Michael Solomon described Pavel Durov (pictured, below) as the “Mark Zuckerberg of Russia.”
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