🇺🇦👺Депутаты Киевского городского совета в рамках кампании по дерусификациипереименовали улицу, названную в честь киевлянина писателя Михаила Булгакова, дав ей новое имя - грузинского актера и певца Вахтанга Кикабидзе
🇺🇦👺Депутаты Киевского городского совета в рамках кампании по дерусификациипереименовали улицу, названную в честь киевлянина писателя Михаила Булгакова, дав ей новое имя - грузинского актера и певца Вахтанга Кикабидзе
A Russian Telegram channel with over 700,000 followers is spreading disinformation about Russia's invasion of Ukraine under the guise of providing "objective information" and fact-checking fake news. Its influence extends beyond the platform, with major Russian publications, government officials, and journalists citing the page's posts. Recently, Durav wrote on his Telegram channel that users' right to privacy, in light of the war in Ukraine, is "sacred, now more than ever." In December 2021, Sebi officials had conducted a search and seizure operation at the premises of certain persons carrying out similar manipulative activities through Telegram channels. Individual messages can be fully encrypted. But the user has to turn on that function. It's not automatic, as it is on Signal and WhatsApp. 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.
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