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Telegram Turmoil Threatens Dominant Chronicle of the War in Ukraine
NY Times ^ | Aug 26, 2024 | Anatoly Kurmanaev

Posted on 08/26/2024 4:14:11 PM PDT by McGruff

The detention of Pavel Durov, the founder of the Telegram messaging app, in Paris on Saturday has raised questions about the future of a platform that has come to define the public perception of Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Russia’s invasion in 2022 helped transform Telegram from a niche communication tool for Russia’s educated classes into a global phenomenon. The app has allowed millions of people to follow battlefield developments in near real time, turned soldiers into the narrators of the conflict unfolding around them and gave both propagandists and dissidents a pulpit in the struggle for the hearts and minds of those monitoring the war.

Telegram was founded by Mr. Durov with his brother in 2013. Mr. Durov, a Russian-born French citizen,

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: 2013; childabuse; durov; europe; france; media; paveldurov; pedo; politicalprisoners; telegram; ukraine

1 posted on 08/26/2024 4:14:11 PM PDT by McGruff
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To: McGruff

They banned me when I defended Trump. I don’t want to see them censored but ...


2 posted on 08/26/2024 4:16:50 PM PDT by Williams (Let's Focus On Electing President Trump)
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Full article here.

https://archive.ph/xA4Up

Worth reading.


3 posted on 08/26/2024 4:17:04 PM PDT by McGruff (Are you better off than you were four years ago?)
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To: McGruff

That Telegram is being used to expose the truth about the West’s failed proxy war in Ukraine is absolutely the reason Durov was arrested.


4 posted on 08/26/2024 4:19:46 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: McGruff

Sharing information and ideas is not permitted.
“Oceana has always been at war with Esatasia”


5 posted on 08/26/2024 4:27:34 PM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (‘Never trust a man whose uncle was eaten by cannibals’)
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To: McGruff

The totalitarian Europeans are going to be surprised and terrified when we kick Harris to the curb.


6 posted on 08/26/2024 4:27:36 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: Kazan

We need to convert our messages into Morse Code if we want to keep posting.


7 posted on 08/26/2024 4:28:31 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (Kafka was an optimist.)
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To: McGruff
Telegram Turmoil Threatens Dominant Chronicle of the War in Ukraine

Um...that was kind of the idea.

8 posted on 08/26/2024 4:34:50 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: Kazan

I’m sure the sleaze bags at our State Department are helping the French, even pressuring them.


9 posted on 08/26/2024 4:35:18 PM PDT by Track9 (If you want to know about human nature, read a power tool user manual. )
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To: McGruff

“complicity”
not helping with monitoring
“criminal association”
“laundering”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/france-releases-info-on-potential-charges-facing-telegram-ceo-pavel-durov


10 posted on 08/26/2024 4:52:58 PM PDT by Brian Griffin ("Why didn’t she do it three and a half years ago?”)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

The box of a newly bought drill might contain more instructions than are necessary to operate the drill.


11 posted on 08/26/2024 4:57:38 PM PDT by Brian Griffin ("Why didn’t she do it three and a half years ago?”)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Daddy, I just found a quarter in the yard.

Daddy, what’s this?

A card taped to the quarter - let me put it in my camera.


12 posted on 08/26/2024 5:16:57 PM PDT by Brian Griffin ("Why didn’t she do it three and a half years ago?”)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Balloons with messages will travel.


13 posted on 08/26/2024 5:19:46 PM PDT by Brian Griffin ("Why didn’t she do it three and a half years ago?”)
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To: Kazan

Nothing new, Putin moved to censor before than later reembraced him.


14 posted on 08/28/2024 8:58:17 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Brian Griffin

Child abuse


15 posted on 08/28/2024 8:58:44 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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