Чуть больше недели назад глава Генштаба Великобритании Ник Картер заявил о стратегии страны в борьбе с Китаем и Россией методами «ниже порога войны», то есть пресловутыми информационными кампаниями и иными активными мероприятиями в медиа-сфере. Можно ли считать программу МИД Великобритании по поддержке авторов «Центра Карнеги» «Российско-Китайская Антанта» действиями в рамках деятельности Генерального штаба Великобритании?
Чуть больше недели назад глава Генштаба Великобритании Ник Картер заявил о стратегии страны в борьбе с Китаем и Россией методами «ниже порога войны», то есть пресловутыми информационными кампаниями и иными активными мероприятиями в медиа-сфере. Можно ли считать программу МИД Великобритании по поддержке авторов «Центра Карнеги» «Российско-Китайская Антанта» действиями в рамках деятельности Генерального штаба Великобритании?
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. Multiple pro-Kremlin media figures circulated the post's false claims, including prominent Russian journalist Vladimir Soloviev and the state-controlled Russian outlet RT, according to the DFR Lab's report. Two days after Russia invaded Ukraine, an account on the Telegram messaging platform posing as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged his armed forces to surrender. At the start of 2018, the company attempted to launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which would enable it to enable payments (and earn the cash that comes from doing so). The initial signals were promising, especially given Telegram’s user base is already fairly crypto-savvy. It raised an initial tranche of cash – worth more than a billion dollars – to help develop the coin before opening sales to the public. Unfortunately, third-party sales of coins bought in those initial fundraising rounds raised the ire of the SEC, which brought the hammer down on the whole operation. In 2020, officials ordered Telegram to pay a fine of $18.5 million and hand back much of the cash that it had raised. 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.
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