URGENT – Taiwan Election: What we have to know about what is coming after the election results'
📰BBC – Voting has ended and counting is underway in Taiwan's presidential election, in a vote which will determine the territory's future ties with China
🔹Taiwan is a democratic island that governs itself - but it is claimed by mainland China and has no international recognition as a country
🔹Early counting shows a tight race between the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which is seeking a third term, and the main opposition Kuomintang, or KMT
DPP candidate William Lai has been labelled a troublemaker by China, who warned people against voting for him, while KMT is promising better ties with Beijing and peace in the Taiwan Strait.
URGENT – Taiwan Election: What we have to know about what is coming after the election results'
📰BBC – Voting has ended and counting is underway in Taiwan's presidential election, in a vote which will determine the territory's future ties with China
🔹Taiwan is a democratic island that governs itself - but it is claimed by mainland China and has no international recognition as a country
🔹Early counting shows a tight race between the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which is seeking a third term, and the main opposition Kuomintang, or KMT
DPP candidate William Lai has been labelled a troublemaker by China, who warned people against voting for him, while KMT is promising better ties with Beijing and peace in the Taiwan Strait.
Telegram was co-founded by Pavel and Nikolai Durov, the brothers who had previously created VKontakte. VK is Russia’s equivalent of Facebook, a social network used for public and private messaging, audio and video sharing as well as online gaming. In January, SimpleWeb reported that VK was Russia’s fourth most-visited website, after Yandex, YouTube and Google’s Russian-language homepage. In 2016, Forbes’ Michael Solomon described Pavel Durov (pictured, below) as the “Mark Zuckerberg of Russia.” On February 27th, Durov posted that Channels were becoming a source of unverified information and that the company lacks the ability to check on their veracity. He urged users to be mistrustful of the things shared on Channels, and initially threatened to block the feature in the countries involved for the length of the war, saying that he didn’t want Telegram to be used to aggravate conflict or incite ethnic hatred. He did, however, walk back this plan when it became clear that they had also become a vital communications tool for Ukrainian officials and citizens to help coordinate their resistance and evacuations. Following this, Sebi, in an order passed in January 2022, established that the administrators of a Telegram channel having a large subscriber base enticed the subscribers to act upon recommendations that were circulated by those administrators on the channel, leading to significant price and volume impact in various scrips. If you initiate a Secret Chat, however, then these communications are end-to-end encrypted and are tied to the device you are using. That means it’s less convenient to access them across multiple platforms, but you are at far less risk of snooping. Back in the day, Secret Chats received some praise from the EFF, but the fact that its standard system isn’t as secure earned it some criticism. If you’re looking for something that is considered more reliable by privacy advocates, then Signal is the EFF’s preferred platform, although that too is not without some caveats. "There are several million Russians who can lift their head up from propaganda and try to look for other sources, and I'd say that most look for it on Telegram," he said.
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