The US government had wanted a backdoor to Telegram in order to potentially spy on its users, the social media platform’s founder Pavel Durov said in an interview with American journalist Tucker Carlson. The attention from the FBI was one of the reasons Durov dropped the idea of setting up …
Read More »Mozart Group trains Ukrainians to ‘kill Russians’ – founder
Despite its professed humanitarian mission in Ukraine, the Mozart Group is a private military company training Ukrainian soldiers to kill Russians, its founder and CEO told RT’s Afshin Rattansi on Saturday’s episode of ‘Going Underground.’ Founded by US citizens Andrew Milburn and Andrew Bain last March, the Mozart Group has …
Read More »Wagner founder explains US hostility
The Wagner Group scares the US because it is willing to oppose American atrocities around the world, the private military company’s founder Yevgeny Prigozhin claimed on Monday, answering a question from RT. Washington said last week that it would designate the Russian PMC as an international criminal organization, accusing it …
Read More »White House snubs question on donations from FTX founder
The White House has declined to say whether President Joe Biden would return campaign contributions from Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of a major crypto exchange who is now accused of defrauding investors before his company imploded last month. Asked whether the president will send back the donations during a press …
Read More »Amnesty Sweden co-founder resigns over Ukraine report
Per Wastberg, who co-founded the Swedish branch of Amnesty International, resigned from the organization on Wednesday. The Swedish activist said his departure was due to Amnesty’s report about the conflict in Ukraine, and that the organization has gone beyond its original mandate to advocate for political prisoners. “I have been …
Read More »Twitter co-founder reacts to takeover
Jack Dorsey offered praise and encouragement for Elon Musk after the Tesla CEO purchased Twitter in a $44 billion deal, saying he trusts the company in his hands and that he will ‘take it back’ from Wall Street. Dorsey outlined his views on the purchase in a lengthy Twitter thread …
Read More »‘Depraved’ Playboy founder accused of bestiality and grooming
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner may have passed on in 2017 at the age of 91, but there are still plenty of people with much to say about the man, evidenced in a new documentary in which he is accused of everything from sexual assault to bestiality. The 10-part A&E documentary …
Read More »Theranos founder convicted of fraud & conspiracy
The founder and CEO of ‘revolutionary’ blood-testing health technology company Theranos, has been found guilty on four counts of wire fraud and conspiracy to defraud investors, but not patients. Elizabeth Holmes, 37, was found not guilty on four charges revolving around “wire fraud against Theranos paying patients,” and the jury …
Read More »Pussy Riot founder added to Russia’s ‘foreign agent’ list
The founder of the Russian protest group Pussy Riot, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, and fellow member, Veronika Nikulshina have been added to the Russian Ministry of Justice’s ‘foreign agents’ registry, over links to funding from abroad. In a statement on Thursday, officials said that the decision about the controversial punk rockers “was …
Read More »BLM could ‘unleash the people’ in New York – co-founder to RT
“Eric Adams is a man without a plan, so all he can conceive of is brute force,” Newsome told RT America on Thursday. “That’s how he wants to and plans to unleash law enforcement, NYPD, on black and brown people who live in … dire, dire poverty.” Created to stop …
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