+++ Inkognito: Unser Anruf beim "Verschwörungstelefon" des Innenministeriums! +++
"Anfang März schaltete das Bundesinnenministerium ein "Hilfstelefon gegen Verschwörungsdenken", das sowohl Opfern von "Verschwörungsdenken" als auch davon Betroffenen Unterstützung geben soll.
Wir wollten es genauer wissen - und haben inkognito selbst dort angerufen. Und fanden schnell heraus: Hinter diesem "Hilfsangebot" verbirgt sich etwas ganz anderes..."
+++ Inkognito: Unser Anruf beim "Verschwörungstelefon" des Innenministeriums! +++
"Anfang März schaltete das Bundesinnenministerium ein "Hilfstelefon gegen Verschwörungsdenken", das sowohl Opfern von "Verschwörungsdenken" als auch davon Betroffenen Unterstützung geben soll.
Wir wollten es genauer wissen - und haben inkognito selbst dort angerufen. Und fanden schnell heraus: Hinter diesem "Hilfsangebot" verbirgt sich etwas ganz anderes..."
Artem Kliuchnikov and his family fled Ukraine just days before the Russian invasion. You may recall that, back when Facebook started changing WhatsApp’s terms of service, a number of news outlets reported on, and even recommended, switching to Telegram. Pavel Durov even said that users should delete WhatsApp “unless you are cool with all of your photos and messages becoming public one day.” But Telegram can’t be described as a more-secure version of WhatsApp. At the start of 2018, the company attempted to launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which would enable it to enable payments (and earn the cash that comes from doing so). The initial signals were promising, especially given Telegram’s user base is already fairly crypto-savvy. It raised an initial tranche of cash – worth more than a billion dollars – to help develop the coin before opening sales to the public. Unfortunately, third-party sales of coins bought in those initial fundraising rounds raised the ire of the SEC, which brought the hammer down on the whole operation. In 2020, officials ordered Telegram to pay a fine of $18.5 million and hand back much of the cash that it had raised. Update March 8, 2022: EFF has clarified that Channels and Groups are not fully encrypted, end-to-end, updated our post to link to Telegram’s FAQ for Cloud and Secret chats, updated to clarify that auto-delete is available for group and channel admins, and added some additional links. The next bit isn’t clear, but Durov reportedly claimed that his resignation, dated March 21st, was an April Fools’ prank. TechCrunch implies that it was a matter of principle, but it’s hard to be clear on the wheres, whos and whys. Similarly, on April 17th, the Moscow Times quoted Durov as saying that he quit the company after being pressured to reveal account details about Ukrainians protesting the then-president Viktor Yanukovych.
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