Pavel Durov on his birthday made a list of three undervalued and seven overvalued things in life, according to Esquire. Pavel Durov is a Russian entrepreneur, programmer, dollar billionaire, one of the founders of the Vkontakte social network and the company of the same name, the cross-platform Telegram messenger and other projects. According to ...
The social network VKontakte is working on the issue of creating its own cryptocurrency, but the final decision on its launch has not yet been made, a source familiar with the company's plans told RNS. According to him, the current configuration of the project involves the creation of individual accounts for the accumulation of cryptocurrency for all users of the social network, ...
The social network “VKontakte” for the second time in a day updated the “Rules” section in Russian. On the morning of September 3, the clause according to which users can “delete all information” about themselves along with the page disappeared from the rules. After the publication of the BBC, the social network returned the rules of the previous edition, where...
In case you want to protect yourself from deadlines for memes and reposts without deleting the entire page. Over the past month, it became known about several criminal cases at once for pictures, records and reposts on VKontakte. First, Maria Motuznaya, a resident of Barnaul, in the format ...
One of the distinguishing features of the modern law enforcement system in Russia is criminal cases under Article 282 of the Criminal Code (“Incitement to hatred or enmity”) for pictures on social networks; usually on VKontakte. Often Internet users are punished because of memes that some find offensive. ...
Users of the Russian social network VKontakte noticed that laudatory posts about Russian President Vladimir Putin began to appear in it, published in accounts that, judging by their content, belong to people who have already died. Posts were mostly published from ...
After the bloody events in Charlottesville, Virginia, in mid-August, when a woman was killed and several dozen people were injured as a result of clashes between the ultra-right and their opponents, the topic of extremism and extreme nationalism has become a key topic in the United States. As the publication “Voice ...
The shocking news about the ban on Russian social networks in Ukraine, as well as the blocking of Yandex, 1C and Mail.RU made me think about how to bypass the blocking of VK, Odnoklassniki and all of the above sites. Some sites that fell under the ban, for example, VKontakte, immediately sent out instructions to users, ...
It became known how eight successful startups have a rest. The routes below are for those who want to repeat their holiday. Walk on the wings of a biplane The head of Tesla Motors and one of the main technology enthusiasts of our time, Elon Musk, not only ponders, but also rests like an adventurer of the frontier ...
Researchers at the University of Miami, Florida have created a mathematical model to study the patterns of behavior of radical groups, including terrorists, on social networks. According to researchers who published an article in the journal Science, this model can be used to predict terrorist attacks by tracking user activity. The authors of the work created their own ...