Прекращением интернет-трансляций заседаний комиссий Екатеринбургской городской думы недовольны не только журналисты, но и мэрия. Спикер Гурарий в переписке с мэром Орловым заявила, что готова предоставить чиновникам ссылки, по которым можно будет смотреть за происходящим в думе. В мэрии, очевидно, в порядке административного троллинга, направили в думу сотни фамилий.
Прекращением интернет-трансляций заседаний комиссий Екатеринбургской городской думы недовольны не только журналисты, но и мэрия. Спикер Гурарий в переписке с мэром Орловым заявила, что готова предоставить чиновникам ссылки, по которым можно будет смотреть за происходящим в думе. В мэрии, очевидно, в порядке административного троллинга, направили в думу сотни фамилий.
"Someone posing as a Ukrainian citizen just joins the chat and starts spreading misinformation, or gathers data, like the location of shelters," Tsekhanovska said, noting how false messages have urged Ukrainians to turn off their phones at a specific time of night, citing cybersafety. Telegram boasts 500 million users, who share information individually and in groups in relative security. But Telegram's use as a one-way broadcast channel — which followers can join but not reply to — means content from inauthentic accounts can easily reach large, captive and eager audiences. For Oleksandra Tsekhanovska, head of the Hybrid Warfare Analytical Group at the Kyiv-based Ukraine Crisis Media Center, the effects are both near- and far-reaching. 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 channel appears to be part of the broader information war that has developed following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The Kremlin has paid Russian TikTok influencers to push propaganda, according to a Vice News investigation, while ProPublica found that fake Russian fact check videos had been viewed over a million times on Telegram.
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