🇺🇦 Rats are fleeing the ship. The “Chosen Company” of the Ukrainian International Legion is leaving Ukraine — though they’re not ready to say why.
🐻What do you think happened? Grift’s over? Got too dicey? Funny how these Westerners just say, “Alright, I’m done,” while forcibly mobilized Ukrainian men are left to die for Zelensky. Must be great for morale.
🇺🇦 Rats are fleeing the ship. The “Chosen Company” of the Ukrainian International Legion is leaving Ukraine — though they’re not ready to say why.
🐻What do you think happened? Grift’s over? Got too dicey? Funny how these Westerners just say, “Alright, I’m done,” while forcibly mobilized Ukrainian men are left to die for Zelensky. Must be great for morale.
At this point, however, Durov had already been working on Telegram with his brother, and further planned a mobile-first social network with an explicit focus on anti-censorship. Later in April, he told TechCrunch that he had left Russia and had “no plans to go back,” saying that the nation was currently “incompatible with internet business at the moment.” He added later that he was looking for a country that matched his libertarian ideals to base his next startup. The regulator said it had received information that messages containing stock tips and other investment advice with respect to selected listed companies are being widely circulated through websites and social media platforms such as Telegram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram. 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. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) had carried out a similar exercise in 2017 in a matter related to circulation of messages through WhatsApp. Perpetrators of such fraud use various marketing techniques to attract subscribers on their social media channels.
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