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 …
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Russian President Vladimir Putin does not follow any Telegram channels personally, but his regular intelligence briefings may sometimes include a review of noteworthy posts, particularly from military correspondents, Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov has said. “Putin doesn’t read Telegram channels, but receives reviews,” Peskov told Tass on Sunday, noting that the …
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Brazil has lifted its ban on the messaging service Telegram after it complied with the Brazilian Supreme Court’s demands, which included censoring Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. The Supreme Court blocked Telegram on Friday after it ignored orders to censor accounts that had allegedly shared misinformation. Following the ban, however, Telegram …
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A Brazilian judge has ordered the suspension of messaging app Telegram, demanding that it be barred from operating in the country until it complies with orders to censor accounts that spread alleged misinformation. Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes made the ruling on Friday, banning a communications platform that has …
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Germany’s Federal Justice Ministry has started two investigations against the Telegram messenger service, the ministry’s spokesperson told journalists on Monday, adding that the messenger might face fines. It stands accused of failing to designate a representative the German authorities can contact. Earlier, the German DW broadcaster reported, the fines might …
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Telegram is being used to target government officials, scientists and doctors over their handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office (Bundeskriminalamt, BKA) said on Wednesday. BKA accused the encrypted messaging platform of becoming “medium for radicalization” and announced a crackdown. “The coronavirus pandemic in particular has contributed …
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Pavel Durov, the executive director and founder of Telegram, one of the world’s most popular messaging apps, has said a proposal to ban cryptocurrency mining and crypto-related transactions via Russian financial services would lead to an inevitable outflow of IT specialists. The ban, which has been touted by Russia’s central …
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Swiss soldiers are required to stop using WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram, and use a domestic messenger instead, Swiss media reported this week. Data protection was cited as the reason. Commanders and chiefs of staff received an instruction in late December informing them of the new rules, according to Swiss media. …
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Telegram “knows” he doesn’t have an account, Snowden tweeted on Sunday, complaining about an impostor account named ‘Official_EdwardSnowden’ sharing “a swastika” to 80,000 followers. “Great job, guys. Just super,” he said. Snowden added that Telegram knew “ages ago” about the “scam-ring running this account,” having refused to respond to media …
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Telegram founder Pavel Durov took to the platform on Tuesday to congratulate his employees on a job well done, noting that not only had Telegram “welcomed over 70 million refugees from other platforms in one day” but that the platform had worked “flawlessly for the vast majority of our users” …
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