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Pavel Durov has visited Russia more than 50 times since his "exile" in 2014
- stefantalpalaru 2y ago[dead]
- KingOfCoders 2y agoI think the more important thing to talk about is that everyone calls Telegram "secure", but by default it's not E2EE. Which in the best case is PR and the worst case a honeypot.
- commercialnix 2y agoAnyone speaking, let alone behaving, like Telegram is "secure", ipso facto has won a Darwin Award. We won't see the results in the short-term, but yeah they have won it alright.
- r721 2y agoThere were two big discussions on that topic recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41350530 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41350530 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41359502 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41359502
- gerikson 2y agoWhat a weird site, can't seem to scroll it? It wants to install some weird app?
- r721 2y agoIt's quite well-known independent Russian media (Latvia-based): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IStories https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IStories
- gerikson 2y agoThanks for expanding on the site's origins. Using reader mode enables me to read it.
- protomolecule 2y ago[flagged]
- r721 2y agoDo you prefer to read state-owned media or what?
- acdha 2y agoThis is an uncharitable take. It’s reasonable to want to know who owns the news you read so you can take that into account while assessing their claims. That will affect who they hire just as it would for state media, and it’s often harder to find details than it would be with public ownership.
- r721 2y agoWell, in the Russian context "independent media" usually means "non-state-aligned", that's why I asked. As for ownership I already provided link to Wikipedia which says "IStories is a non-profit organisation. It is operated by a board of directors. The organisation modelled on ProPublica, a non-profit investigative journalism organisation." and I don't know anything further than that.
- protomolecule 2y ago>Well, in the Russian context "independent media" usually means "non-state-aligned" Is it? "Nevertheless, the Pentagon’s clandestine propaganda efforts are set to continue. In an unclassified strategy document last year, top Pentagon generals wrote that the U.S. military could undermine adversaries such as China and Russia using “disinformation spread across social media, false narratives disguised as news, and similar subversive activities [to] weaken societal trust by undermining the foundations of government.”" [0] [0] https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/ https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covi...