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Telegram's following in Russia means, some analysts say, it’s too big to cancel. Kievskaya metro station in Moscow.THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Telegram Thrives Amid Russia’s Media Crackdown
The social media and chat app has become an increasingly popular destination for unfiltered news, pro-Kremlin propaganda and everything in between
Russia’s campaign to restrict access to Twitter, Facebook and other sources of uncensored information on its invasion of Ukraine has skipped one crucial platform: the social media and chat app Telegram.
Anyone in Russia who wanted to follow Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’saddress to Congress on Wednesday could find it on Telegram, along with images of Russia bombing civilian areas in Ukraine. Users are decamping en masse to Telegram from banned apps like Meta Platforms Inc.’sInstagram as well as others that are under threat of being blocked, like Alphabet Inc.’sYouTube.
That has helped push some of Telegram’s Russian-language news, politics and commentary channels—already among the app’s most popular—to double and triple their numbers of subscribers in recent weeks, with several gaining more than a million new followers in a matter of days.
Telegram’s growth comes as Russian President Vladimir Putin is lowering a digital iron curtain on the country, which has been targeted by sweeping Western sanctions. Several channels with large followings carry posts that appear to defy the Kremlin’s decision to criminalize what it considers to be false information about the conflict, such as describing it as a “war” or “invasion.”
Russian-language Telegram channel @varlamov_news on Monday shared uncensored video of the moment when an employee of Russian state-television ran onto an evening news broadcast with a poster that read "Don't believe the propaganda."
One Russian-language channel run by independent journalist Ilya Varlamov, which offers a stream of news updates that have included footage of burning apartment buildings in Kyiv, increased its subscriber-count fivefold to nearly 1.3 million since the war began, according to statistics service Telemetrio. Earlier this week, the channel shared uncensored video footage of the moment when an employee of Russian state-television Channel One ran on its evening news broadcast with a poster that read “Don’t believe the propaganda” while shouting “Stop the war.” It was viewed 1.2 million times
Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012
Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.
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