Журналист Сергей Пархоменко — о высказываниях Путина про Ельцина «Путин достал из запасника запретную тему, применил прием, который до сих пор не смел пускать в ход: насчет “прикладывался к рюмочке” и “такой-сякой, алкаш” — про человека, подарившего ему заветный президентский стул.
Журналист Сергей Пархоменко — о высказываниях Путина про Ельцина «Путин достал из запасника запретную тему, применил прием, который до сих пор не смел пускать в ход: насчет “прикладывался к рюмочке” и “такой-сякой, алкаш” — про человека, подарившего ему заветный президентский стул.
In 2014, Pavel Durov fled the country after allies of the Kremlin took control of the social networking site most know just as VK. Russia's intelligence agency had asked Durov to turn over the data of anti-Kremlin protesters. Durov refused to do so. 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. As a result, the pandemic saw many newcomers to Telegram, including prominent anti-vaccine activists who used the app's hands-off approach to share false information on shots, a study from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue shows. Telegram has become more interventionist over time, and has steadily increased its efforts to shut down these accounts. But this has also meant that the company has also engaged with lawmakers more generally, although it maintains that it doesn’t do so willingly. For instance, in September 2021, Telegram reportedly blocked a chat bot in support of (Putin critic) Alexei Navalny during Russia’s most recent parliamentary elections. Pavel Durov was quoted at the time saying that the company was obliged to follow a “legitimate” law of the land. He added that as Apple and Google both follow the law, to violate it would give both platforms a reason to boot the messenger from its stores. On Feb. 27, however, he admitted from his Russian-language account that "Telegram channels are increasingly becoming a source of unverified information related to Ukrainian events."
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