Anfang des Jahres sorgte das Friedensbündnis Bernau-Panketal mit einer ganzseitigen Anzeige in der Berliner Zeitung für Aufsehen. Am 1. September soll ein Friedensfestival in Bernau folgen. Im Interview mit der Brandenburger Freiheit äußert sich Thomas Marquard, der Sprecher der Initiative, über die Pläne des Bündnisses für die Zukunft und über die Nachteile dezentraler Proteste. Außerdem erläutert Marquard, wie er sich den Umgang mit der AfD vorstellt.
Anfang des Jahres sorgte das Friedensbündnis Bernau-Panketal mit einer ganzseitigen Anzeige in der Berliner Zeitung für Aufsehen. Am 1. September soll ein Friedensfestival in Bernau folgen. Im Interview mit der Brandenburger Freiheit äußert sich Thomas Marquard, der Sprecher der Initiative, über die Pläne des Bündnisses für die Zukunft und über die Nachteile dezentraler Proteste. Außerdem erläutert Marquard, wie er sich den Umgang mit der AfD vorstellt.
Two days after Russia invaded Ukraine, an account on the Telegram messaging platform posing as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged his armed forces to surrender. "We as Ukrainians believe that the truth is on our side, whether it's truth that you're proclaiming about the war and everything else, why would you want to hide it?," he said. Pavel Durov, Telegram's CEO, is known as "the Russian Mark Zuckerberg," for co-founding VKontakte, which is Russian for "in touch," a Facebook imitator that became the country's most popular social networking site. On February 27th, Durov posted that Channels were becoming a source of unverified information and that the company lacks the ability to check on their veracity. He urged users to be mistrustful of the things shared on Channels, and initially threatened to block the feature in the countries involved for the length of the war, saying that he didn’t want Telegram to be used to aggravate conflict or incite ethnic hatred. He did, however, walk back this plan when it became clear that they had also become a vital communications tool for Ukrainian officials and citizens to help coordinate their resistance and evacuations. 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.
from vn
