✈️🇺🇸 Two U.S. Navy pilots were shot down Sunday over the Red Sea in an apparent “friendly fire” incident, - AP News
❗️Both pilots were recovered alive after ejecting from their stricken aircraft. The U.S. military had conducted airstrikes targeting Yemen’s Houthis. F/A-18 shot down had just flown off the deck of the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier.
✈️🇺🇸 Two U.S. Navy pilots were shot down Sunday over the Red Sea in an apparent “friendly fire” incident, - AP News
❗️Both pilots were recovered alive after ejecting from their stricken aircraft. The U.S. military had conducted airstrikes targeting Yemen’s Houthis. F/A-18 shot down had just flown off the deck of the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier.
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. Additionally, investors are often instructed to deposit monies into personal bank accounts of individuals who claim to represent a legitimate entity, and/or into an unrelated corporate account. To lend credence and to lure unsuspecting victims, perpetrators usually claim that their entity and/or the investment schemes are approved by financial authorities. 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." Telegram was founded in 2013 by two Russian brothers, Nikolai and Pavel Durov. 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.
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