#читаемновостивместе 🇬🇪 Исполнительный секретарь правящей партии Грузии о задержанных на акциях протеста иностранцах.
«30% людей, идентификация которых происходит во время и после задержания на акциях в Тбилиси, проходящих на центральных улицах, к нашему удивлению, являются гражданами других стран. Кто-то должен объяснить эту странность. Почему эти иностранные граждане так вспыхнули после нашего решения?», – сказал Мамука Мдинарадзе. @skoloth
#читаемновостивместе 🇬🇪 Исполнительный секретарь правящей партии Грузии о задержанных на акциях протеста иностранцах.
«30% людей, идентификация которых происходит во время и после задержания на акциях в Тбилиси, проходящих на центральных улицах, к нашему удивлению, являются гражданами других стран. Кто-то должен объяснить эту странность. Почему эти иностранные граждане так вспыхнули после нашего решения?», – сказал Мамука Мдинарадзе. @skoloth
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. 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. "And that set off kind of a battle royale for control of the platform that Durov eventually lost," said Nathalie Maréchal of the Washington advocacy group Ranking Digital Rights. The picture was mixed overseas. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index fell 1.6%, under pressure from U.S. regulatory scrutiny on New York-listed Chinese companies. Stocks were more buoyant in Europe, where Frankfurt’s DAX surged 1.4%. "Someone posing as a Ukrainian citizen just joins the chat and starts spreading misinformation, or gathers data, like the location of shelters," Tsekhanovska said, noting how false messages have urged Ukrainians to turn off their phones at a specific time of night, citing cybersafety.
from vn
