Solidarity zone is now supporting another detainee: Irina Izmailova
The artist and activist from Samara is charged with preparing explosives, but the FSB seem to have come for her because of her anti-war position: the FSB emphasise that Izmaliova, "supports a radical pro-Ukrainian ideology".
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Solidarity zone is now supporting another detainee: Irina Izmailova
The artist and activist from Samara is charged with preparing explosives, but the FSB seem to have come for her because of her anti-war position: the FSB emphasise that Izmaliova, "supports a radical pro-Ukrainian ideology".
✊ You can support the Solidarity zone collective by subscribing on Patreon: this will help us continue our work.
Again, in contrast to Facebook, Google and Twitter, Telegram's founder Pavel Durov runs his company in relative secrecy from Dubai. In the past, it was noticed that through bulk SMSes, investors were induced to invest in or purchase the stocks of certain listed companies. It is unclear who runs the account, although Russia's official Ministry of Foreign Affairs Twitter account promoted the Telegram channel on Saturday and claimed it was operated by "a group of experts & journalists." 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. Unlike Silicon Valley giants such as Facebook and Twitter, which run very public anti-disinformation programs, Brooking said: "Telegram is famously lax or absent in its content moderation policy."
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