Möge uns das Licht auch in der Dunkelheit erhalten bleiben. Für unsere Zukunft. Für ein Leben in Würde und Freiheit. Glauben wir an ein Morgen, kämpfen wir für ein besseres MORGEN. Meinen Kindern möchte ich keine Welt voll Krieg und Angst übergeben.
Möge uns das Licht auch in der Dunkelheit erhalten bleiben. Für unsere Zukunft. Für ein Leben in Würde und Freiheit. Glauben wir an ein Morgen, kämpfen wir für ein besseres MORGEN. Meinen Kindern möchte ich keine Welt voll Krieg und Angst übergeben.
The last couple days have exemplified that uncertainty. On Thursday, news emerged that talks in Turkey between the Russia and Ukraine yielded no positive result. But on Friday, Reuters reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin said there had been some “positive shifts” in talks between the two sides. Russians and Ukrainians are both prolific users of Telegram. They rely on the app for channels that act as newsfeeds, group chats (both public and private), and one-to-one communication. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Telegram has remained an important lifeline for both Russians and Ukrainians, as a way of staying aware of the latest news and keeping in touch with loved ones. Telegram, which does little policing of its content, has also became a hub for Russian propaganda and misinformation. Many pro-Kremlin channels have become popular, alongside accounts of journalists and other independent observers. The company maintains that it cannot act against individual or group chats, which are “private amongst their participants,” but it will respond to requests in relation to sticker sets, channels and bots which are publicly available. During the invasion of Ukraine, Pavel Durov has wrestled with this issue a lot more prominently than he has before. Channels like Donbass Insider and Bellum Acta, as reported by Foreign Policy, started pumping out pro-Russian propaganda as the invasion began. So much so that the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council issued a statement labeling which accounts are Russian-backed. Ukrainian officials, in potential violation of the Geneva Convention, have shared imagery of dead and captured Russian soldiers on the platform. Telegram was founded in 2013 by two Russian brothers, Nikolai and Pavel Durov.
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