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𝐆𝐎𝐋𝐃𝐄𝐍 𝐉𝐔𝐈𝐂𝐄 — 𝐓𝐔𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐋𝐒

𝐆𝐎𝐋𝐃𝐄𝐍 𝐉𝐔𝐈𝐂𝐄 — 𝐓𝐔𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐋𝐒 Telegram | DID YOU KNOW?

Pavel Durov, Telegram's CEO, is known as "the Russian Mark Zuckerberg," for co-founding VKontakte, which is Russian for "in touch," a Facebook imitator that became the country's most popular social networking site. In the United States, Telegram's lower public profile has helped it mostly avoid high level scrutiny from Congress, but it has not gone unnoticed. 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.” The message was not authentic, with the real Zelenskiy soon denying the claim on his official Telegram channel, but the incident highlighted a major problem: disinformation quickly spreads unchecked on the encrypted app. In February 2014, the Ukrainian people ousted pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych, prompting Russia to invade and annex the Crimean peninsula. By the start of April, Pavel Durov had given his notice, with TechCrunch saying at the time that the CEO had resisted pressure to suppress pages criticizing the Russian government.
𝐆𝐎𝐋𝐃𝐄𝐍 𝐉𝐔𝐈𝐂𝐄 — 𝐓𝐔𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐋𝐒 from kr

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