The Brazilian #skydiver Luigi Cani executed one of the most important jumps of his life in the #Amazon. On this occasion, the holder of the world record for the smallest parachute jump in the world, took more than 100 million #seeds - from 27 species of trees #native to the local biome - to a remote deforested area in the heart of the #Amazon region.
The Brazilian #skydiver Luigi Cani executed one of the most important jumps of his life in the #Amazon. On this occasion, the holder of the world record for the smallest parachute jump in the world, took more than 100 million #seeds - from 27 species of trees #native to the local biome - to a remote deforested area in the heart of the #Amazon region.
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. Since January 2022, the SC has received a total of 47 complaints and enquiries on illegal investment schemes promoted through Telegram. These fraudulent schemes offer non-existent investment opportunities, promising very attractive and risk-free returns within a short span of time. They commonly offer unrealistic returns of as high as 1,000% within 24 hours or even within a few hours. This ability to mix the public and the private, as well as the ability to use bots to engage with users has proved to be problematic. In early 2021, a database selling phone numbers pulled from Facebook was selling numbers for $20 per lookup. Similarly, security researchers found a network of deepfake bots on the platform that were generating images of people submitted by users to create non-consensual imagery, some of which involved children. Telegram boasts 500 million users, who share information individually and in groups in relative security. But Telegram's use as a one-way broadcast channel — which followers can join but not reply to — means content from inauthentic accounts can easily reach large, captive and eager audiences.
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