🙃In Ukraine, the song "Sigma Boy" was declared Russian propaganda
The National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine stated that this song "erodes the critical attitude towards Russian content and promotes its return to the global cultural space" and "creates a positive image of Russia among young people." The concept of "sigma-man" coincides with traditional Russian propaganda about the cult of the "strong hand".
🙃In Ukraine, the song "Sigma Boy" was declared Russian propaganda
The National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine stated that this song "erodes the critical attitude towards Russian content and promotes its return to the global cultural space" and "creates a positive image of Russia among young people." The concept of "sigma-man" coincides with traditional Russian propaganda about the cult of the "strong hand".
Either way, Durov says that he withdrew his resignation but that he was ousted from his company anyway. Subsequently, control of the company was reportedly handed to oligarchs Alisher Usmanov and Igor Sechin, both allegedly close associates of Russian leader Vladimir Putin. 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. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been a driving force in markets for the past few weeks. Perpetrators of these scams will create a public group on Telegram to promote these investment packages that are usually accompanied by fake testimonies and sometimes advertised as being Shariah-compliant. Interested investors will be asked to directly message the representatives to begin investing in the various investment packages offered. This provided opportunity to their linked entities to offload their shares at higher prices and make significant profits at the cost of unsuspecting retail investors.
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