Afreum launches FirstLight Beta, the first iteration of our encrypted messaging, and transaction, system for the Stellar Blockchain. Add contacts by name or Stellar address, message privately, delete messages or archive them, share images, and even send Afreum-supported tokens. Access FirstLight from the profile icon on the top right of Afreum Wallet, or directly from https://firstlight.chat
Afreum launches FirstLight Beta, the first iteration of our encrypted messaging, and transaction, system for the Stellar Blockchain. Add contacts by name or Stellar address, message privately, delete messages or archive them, share images, and even send Afreum-supported tokens. Access FirstLight from the profile icon on the top right of Afreum Wallet, or directly from https://firstlight.chat
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. As a result, the pandemic saw many newcomers to Telegram, including prominent anti-vaccine activists who used the app's hands-off approach to share false information on shots, a study from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue shows. Now safely in France with his spouse and three of his children, Kliuchnikov scrolls through Telegram to learn about the devastation happening in his home country. Pavel Durov, a billionaire who embraces an all-black wardrobe and is often compared to the character Neo from "the Matrix," funds Telegram through his personal wealth and debt financing. And despite being one of the world's most popular tech companies, Telegram reportedly has only about 30 employees who defer to Durov for most major decisions about the platform. Unlike Silicon Valley giants such as Facebook and Twitter, which run very public anti-disinformation programs, Brooking said: "Telegram is famously lax or absent in its content moderation policy."
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