Der Journalist und Autor Patrick Baab, der 40 Jahre als Journalist unter anderem im öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk gearbeitet hat, bereiste 2023 zu Recherchezwecken das Gebiet der Ostukraine. Seine direkte Begegnung mit dem Kriegsgeschehen eröffneten ihm den Blick für die Auswirkungen des Kriegs auf die Zivilbevölkerung und das enorme entstandene Leid. 👏👏
Der Journalist und Autor Patrick Baab, der 40 Jahre als Journalist unter anderem im öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk gearbeitet hat, bereiste 2023 zu Recherchezwecken das Gebiet der Ostukraine. Seine direkte Begegnung mit dem Kriegsgeschehen eröffneten ihm den Blick für die Auswirkungen des Kriegs auf die Zivilbevölkerung und das enorme entstandene Leid. 👏👏
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." Again, in contrast to Facebook, Google and Twitter, Telegram's founder Pavel Durov runs his company in relative secrecy from Dubai. The company maintains that it cannot act against individual or group chats, which are “private amongst their participants,” but it will respond to requests in relation to sticker sets, channels and bots which are publicly available. During the invasion of Ukraine, Pavel Durov has wrestled with this issue a lot more prominently than he has before. Channels like Donbass Insider and Bellum Acta, as reported by Foreign Policy, started pumping out pro-Russian propaganda as the invasion began. So much so that the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council issued a statement labeling which accounts are Russian-backed. Ukrainian officials, in potential violation of the Geneva Convention, have shared imagery of dead and captured Russian soldiers on the platform. "The argument from Telegram is, 'You should trust us because we tell you that we're trustworthy,'" Maréchal said. "It's really in the eye of the beholder whether that's something you want to buy into." In 2014, Pavel Durov fled the country after allies of the Kremlin took control of the social networking site most know just as VK. Russia's intelligence agency had asked Durov to turn over the data of anti-Kremlin protesters. Durov refused to do so.
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