When I was working at a summer school in Brighton we worked and lived on a campus with like three other summer schools. So when me and my work friend T. walked to the laundry room out of our work hours and saw some teenagers going batshit we squinted and asked each other "Is this our circus? Are these our monkeys?" and the moment of realisation that no, these were monkeys from one of the other circuses was everything
When I was working at a summer school in Brighton we worked and lived on a campus with like three other summer schools. So when me and my work friend T. walked to the laundry room out of our work hours and saw some teenagers going batshit we squinted and asked each other "Is this our circus? Are these our monkeys?" and the moment of realisation that no, these were monkeys from one of the other circuses was everything
Some people used the platform to organize ahead of the storming of the U.S. Capitol in January 2021, and last month Senator Mark Warner sent a letter to Durov urging him to curb Russian information operations on Telegram. Emerson Brooking, a disinformation expert at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, said: "Back in the Wild West period of content moderation, like 2014 or 2015, maybe they could have gotten away with it, but it stands in marked contrast with how other companies run themselves today." As a result, the pandemic saw many newcomers to Telegram, including prominent anti-vaccine activists who used the app's hands-off approach to share false information on shots, a study from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue shows. In February 2014, the Ukrainian people ousted pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych, prompting Russia to invade and annex the Crimean peninsula. By the start of April, Pavel Durov had given his notice, with TechCrunch saying at the time that the CEO had resisted pressure to suppress pages criticizing the Russian government. On December 23rd, 2020, Pavel Durov posted to his channel that the company would need to start generating revenue. In early 2021, he added that any advertising on the platform would not use user data for targeting, and that it would be focused on “large one-to-many channels.” He pledged that ads would be “non-intrusive” and that most users would simply not notice any change.
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