— 🇺🇸/🇸🇾/🇸🇾NEW: CNN admits that the 'prisoner' that was 'freed' by their norotiously fake reporter Clarissa Ward was actually an intelligence officer in Assad's government who was arrested less than 1 month ago over a dispute with his superior over money (allegedly)
CNN initially claimed that the man was a 'victim of the Syrian regime' who had been imprisoned in solitary confinement for more than 3 years in Sednaya prison.
Syrian locals say they know the man, whose name is Salama, and that he was an intelligence officer known for 'extorting' locals (i.e. low level corruption), and that he was likely imprisoned for this abuse of power by the Assad government.
— 🇺🇸/🇸🇾/🇸🇾NEW: CNN admits that the 'prisoner' that was 'freed' by their norotiously fake reporter Clarissa Ward was actually an intelligence officer in Assad's government who was arrested less than 1 month ago over a dispute with his superior over money (allegedly)
CNN initially claimed that the man was a 'victim of the Syrian regime' who had been imprisoned in solitary confinement for more than 3 years in Sednaya prison.
Syrian locals say they know the man, whose name is Salama, and that he was an intelligence officer known for 'extorting' locals (i.e. low level corruption), and that he was likely imprisoned for this abuse of power by the Assad government.
You may recall that, back when Facebook started changing WhatsApp’s terms of service, a number of news outlets reported on, and even recommended, switching to Telegram. Pavel Durov even said that users should delete WhatsApp “unless you are cool with all of your photos and messages becoming public one day.” But Telegram can’t be described as a more-secure version of WhatsApp. 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. There was another possible development: Reuters also reported that Ukraine said that Belarus could soon join the invasion of Ukraine. However, the AFP, citing a Pentagon official, said the U.S. hasn’t yet seen evidence that Belarusian troops are in Ukraine. "There is a significant risk of insider threat or hacking of Telegram systems that could expose all of these chats to the Russian government," said Eva Galperin with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has called for Telegram to improve its privacy practices. 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."
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