This (or is it last?) Saturday was my first Pro-Self Conference, and let me assure you, definitely not the last. Why? ‘Cause I loved it! I loved every single thing about it: the atmosphere, the people, the speakers, the organizer (Kate Panfilova, who is simply amazing!) 🤍
Every time I meet new people in the ELT sphere, I am flabbergasted by how interesting and varied we are! And everybody is genuinely fascinated by each other's experiences even if their work areas don’t overlap in any way. Wow!
This (or is it last?) Saturday was my first Pro-Self Conference, and let me assure you, definitely not the last. Why? ‘Cause I loved it! I loved every single thing about it: the atmosphere, the people, the speakers, the organizer (Kate Panfilova, who is simply amazing!) 🤍
Every time I meet new people in the ELT sphere, I am flabbergasted by how interesting and varied we are! And everybody is genuinely fascinated by each other's experiences even if their work areas don’t overlap in any way. Wow!
But because group chats and the channel features are not end-to-end encrypted, Galperin said user privacy is potentially under threat. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been a driving force in markets for the past few weeks. 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. 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." 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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