В Вологде состоялось открытие памятника Иосифу Сталину. Губернатор Георгий Филимонов сообщил, что советский руководитель провёл несколько месяцев в городе в качестве политического ссыльного, и теперь его дом включён в экспозицию музея «Вологодская ссылка». Филимонов подчеркнул, что Сталин «значительно повлиял на ход истории, приняв страну на этапе аграрного общества и оставив её с ядерным арсеналом».
В Вологде состоялось открытие памятника Иосифу Сталину. Губернатор Георгий Филимонов сообщил, что советский руководитель провёл несколько месяцев в городе в качестве политического ссыльного, и теперь его дом включён в экспозицию музея «Вологодская ссылка». Филимонов подчеркнул, что Сталин «значительно повлиял на ход истории, приняв страну на этапе аграрного общества и оставив её с ядерным арсеналом».
Emerson Brooking, a disinformation expert at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, said: "Back in the Wild West period of content moderation, like 2014 or 2015, maybe they could have gotten away with it, but it stands in marked contrast with how other companies run themselves today." The channel appears to be part of the broader information war that has developed following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The Kremlin has paid Russian TikTok influencers to push propaganda, according to a Vice News investigation, while ProPublica found that fake Russian fact check videos had been viewed over a million times on Telegram. Soloviev also promoted the channel in a post he shared on his own Telegram, which has 580,000 followers. The post recommended his viewers subscribe to "War on Fakes" in a time of fake news. Given the pro-privacy stance of the platform, it’s taken as a given that it’ll be used for a number of reasons, not all of them good. And Telegram has been attached to a fair few scandals related to terrorism, sexual exploitation and crime. Back in 2015, Vox described Telegram as “ISIS’ app of choice,” saying that the platform’s real use is the ability to use channels to distribute material to large groups at once. Telegram has acted to remove public channels affiliated with terrorism, but Pavel Durov reiterated that he had no business snooping on private conversations. 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.
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