Vernichtungskampagne mit dem Segen vom ZDF-Chef: Himmler und sein Zersetzer
Polit-Agitator Jan Böhmermann hatte in seiner Sendung „ZDF Magazin Royale“ ein falsches Gerücht in die Welt gesetzt, um den Ruf des CDU-Politikers Arne Schönbohms zu zerstören: Kollaboration mit dem russischen Feind. In der DDR nannte man diese Methode der Diskreditierung Zersetzung. Mit Journalismus hat das, was unter ZDF-Intendant Norbert Himmler geschieht, nichts mehr zu tun.
Vernichtungskampagne mit dem Segen vom ZDF-Chef: Himmler und sein Zersetzer
Polit-Agitator Jan Böhmermann hatte in seiner Sendung „ZDF Magazin Royale“ ein falsches Gerücht in die Welt gesetzt, um den Ruf des CDU-Politikers Arne Schönbohms zu zerstören: Kollaboration mit dem russischen Feind. In der DDR nannte man diese Methode der Diskreditierung Zersetzung. Mit Journalismus hat das, was unter ZDF-Intendant Norbert Himmler geschieht, nichts mehr zu tun.
Telegram was co-founded by Pavel and Nikolai Durov, the brothers who had previously created VKontakte. VK is Russia’s equivalent of Facebook, a social network used for public and private messaging, audio and video sharing as well as online gaming. In January, SimpleWeb reported that VK was Russia’s fourth most-visited website, after Yandex, YouTube and Google’s Russian-language homepage. In 2016, Forbes’ Michael Solomon described Pavel Durov (pictured, below) as the “Mark Zuckerberg of Russia.” Messages are not fully encrypted by default. That means the company could, in theory, access the content of the messages, or be forced to hand over the data at the request of a government. 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. The next bit isn’t clear, but Durov reportedly claimed that his resignation, dated March 21st, was an April Fools’ prank. TechCrunch implies that it was a matter of principle, but it’s hard to be clear on the wheres, whos and whys. Similarly, on April 17th, the Moscow Times quoted Durov as saying that he quit the company after being pressured to reveal account details about Ukrainians protesting the then-president Viktor Yanukovych. Telegram has become more interventionist over time, and has steadily increased its efforts to shut down these accounts. But this has also meant that the company has also engaged with lawmakers more generally, although it maintains that it doesn’t do so willingly. For instance, in September 2021, Telegram reportedly blocked a chat bot in support of (Putin critic) Alexei Navalny during Russia’s most recent parliamentary elections. Pavel Durov was quoted at the time saying that the company was obliged to follow a “legitimate” law of the land. He added that as Apple and Google both follow the law, to violate it would give both platforms a reason to boot the messenger from its stores.
from vn
