🇸🇾🇸🇾 - Talkalakh, Syria: Journalist Yara Assi shares report that local militant 'Abu Muawiya' has formed an independent militia, claiming that his group kills people & throws their bodies on roads, stole military & state vehicles, with claims that he is promising to genocide minorities.
🇸🇾🇸🇾 - Talkalakh, Syria: Journalist Yara Assi shares report that local militant 'Abu Muawiya' has formed an independent militia, claiming that his group kills people & throws their bodies on roads, stole military & state vehicles, with claims that he is promising to genocide minorities.
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. Andrey, a Russian entrepreneur living in Brazil who, fearing retaliation, asked that NPR not use his last name, said Telegram has become one of the few places Russians can access independent news about the war. DFR Lab sent the image through Microsoft Azure's Face Verification program and found that it was "highly unlikely" that the person in the second photo was the same as the first woman. The fact-checker Logically AI also found the claim to be false. The woman, Olena Kurilo, was also captured in a video after the airstrike and shown to have the injuries. But the Ukraine Crisis Media Center's Tsekhanovska points out that communications are often down in zones most affected by the war, making this sort of cross-referencing a luxury many cannot afford. Under the Sebi Act, the regulator has the power to carry out search and seizure of books, registers, documents including electronics and digital devices from any person associated with the securities market.
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