Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus, under the guise of former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, staged pranks on foreign mercenaries fighting in Ukraine. The pranksters came up with a legend that allegedly Poroshenko is recruiting his own military battalion from foreigners, where he promises to pay well for his work. Two Americans and an Australian responded to this request. As a result, Poroshenko conducted an interview with each of the foreign legionnaires.
Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus, under the guise of former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, staged pranks on foreign mercenaries fighting in Ukraine. The pranksters came up with a legend that allegedly Poroshenko is recruiting his own military battalion from foreigners, where he promises to pay well for his work. Two Americans and an Australian responded to this request. As a result, Poroshenko conducted an interview with each of the foreign legionnaires.
"There is a significant risk of insider threat or hacking of Telegram systems that could expose all of these chats to the Russian government," said Eva Galperin with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has called for Telegram to improve its privacy practices. Oh no. There’s a certain degree of myth-making around what exactly went on, so take everything that follows lightly. Telegram was originally launched as a side project by the Durov brothers, with Nikolai handling the coding and Pavel as CEO, while both were at VK. Since January 2022, the SC has received a total of 47 complaints and enquiries on illegal investment schemes promoted through Telegram. These fraudulent schemes offer non-existent investment opportunities, promising very attractive and risk-free returns within a short span of time. They commonly offer unrealistic returns of as high as 1,000% within 24 hours or even within a few hours. Unlike Silicon Valley giants such as Facebook and Twitter, which run very public anti-disinformation programs, Brooking said: "Telegram is famously lax or absent in its content moderation policy." 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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