Stellen Sie sich ein Kalifat vor. Was sehen Sie? Einen bärtigen Mann mit Turban, vielleicht irgendwo zwischen Kairo und Kandahar, schreiend auf einem Jeep mit Maschinengewehr? Falsch. Der Kalif von heute trägt italienischen Zwirn, schreibt EU-Förderanträge in Gender-Sprache – und ruft dabei zur „Dekolonisierung Europas“ auf. Willkommen im Zeitalter des „Euro-Islam“, einer perfiden Mixtur aus [...] Weiterlesen...
Stellen Sie sich ein Kalifat vor. Was sehen Sie? Einen bärtigen Mann mit Turban, vielleicht irgendwo zwischen Kairo und Kandahar, schreiend auf einem Jeep mit Maschinengewehr? Falsch. Der Kalif von heute trägt italienischen Zwirn, schreibt EU-Förderanträge in Gender-Sprache – und ruft dabei zur „Dekolonisierung Europas“ auf. Willkommen im Zeitalter des „Euro-Islam“, einer perfiden Mixtur aus [...] Weiterlesen...
At this point, however, Durov had already been working on Telegram with his brother, and further planned a mobile-first social network with an explicit focus on anti-censorship. Later in April, he told TechCrunch that he had left Russia and had “no plans to go back,” saying that the nation was currently “incompatible with internet business at the moment.” He added later that he was looking for a country that matched his libertarian ideals to base his next startup. The Security Service of Ukraine said in a tweet that it was able to effectively target Russian convoys near Kyiv because of messages sent to an official Telegram bot account called "STOP Russian War." The S&P 500 fell 1.3% to 4,204.36, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 0.7% to 32,943.33. The Dow posted a fifth straight weekly loss — its longest losing streak since 2019. The Nasdaq Composite tumbled 2.2% to 12,843.81. Though all three indexes opened in the green, stocks took a turn after a new report showed U.S. consumer sentiment deteriorated more than expected in early March as consumers' inflation expectations soared to the highest since 1981. Just days after Russia invaded Ukraine, Durov wrote that Telegram was "increasingly becoming a source of unverified information," and he worried about the app being used to "incite ethnic hatred." 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.
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