На этой неделе итальянские СМИ, а вслед за ними и медиа других стран обнародовали историю, которая из сказки обещает стать былью: в мире может стать на одну картину Пикассо больше. И речь идет не о поздних, часто появляющихся на рынке работах, а о портрете Доры Маар конца 1930-х годов. Даже при отсутствии окончательных, «железобетонных» экспертиз полотно сегодня может стоить не менее $6 млн. Рассказывает Кира Долинина.
На этой неделе итальянские СМИ, а вслед за ними и медиа других стран обнародовали историю, которая из сказки обещает стать былью: в мире может стать на одну картину Пикассо больше. И речь идет не о поздних, часто появляющихся на рынке работах, а о портрете Доры Маар конца 1930-х годов. Даже при отсутствии окончательных, «железобетонных» экспертиз полотно сегодня может стоить не менее $6 млн. Рассказывает Кира Долинина.
A Russian Telegram channel with over 700,000 followers is spreading disinformation about Russia's invasion of Ukraine under the guise of providing "objective information" and fact-checking fake news. Its influence extends beyond the platform, with major Russian publications, government officials, and journalists citing the page's posts. 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. In February 2014, the Ukrainian people ousted pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych, prompting Russia to invade and annex the Crimean peninsula. By the start of April, Pavel Durov had given his notice, with TechCrunch saying at the time that the CEO had resisted pressure to suppress pages criticizing the Russian government. This ability to mix the public and the private, as well as the ability to use bots to engage with users has proved to be problematic. In early 2021, a database selling phone numbers pulled from Facebook was selling numbers for $20 per lookup. Similarly, security researchers found a network of deepfake bots on the platform that were generating images of people submitted by users to create non-consensual imagery, some of which involved children. Since its launch in 2013, Telegram has grown from a simple messaging app to a broadcast network. Its user base isn’t as vast as WhatsApp’s, and its broadcast platform is a fraction the size of Twitter, but it’s nonetheless showing its use. While Telegram has been embroiled in controversy for much of its life, it has become a vital source of communication during the invasion of Ukraine. But, if all of this is new to you, let us explain, dear friends, what on Earth a Telegram is meant to be, and why you should, or should not, need to care.
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