— 🇩🇪 NEW: In a typical woman move, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock stormed out of an official government meeting with the German Cabinet and Chancellor Olaf Scholz, after he announced that Germany will not approve a new aid package for Ukraine
— 🇩🇪 NEW: In a typical woman move, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock stormed out of an official government meeting with the German Cabinet and Chancellor Olaf Scholz, after he announced that Germany will not approve a new aid package for Ukraine
But Telegram says people want to keep their chat history when they get a new phone, and they like having a data backup that will sync their chats across multiple devices. And that is why they let people choose whether they want their messages to be encrypted or not. When not turned on, though, chats are stored on Telegram's services, which are scattered throughout the world. But it has "disclosed 0 bytes of user data to third parties, including governments," Telegram states on its website. Individual messages can be fully encrypted. But the user has to turn on that function. It's not automatic, as it is on Signal and WhatsApp. But the Ukraine Crisis Media Center's Tsekhanovska points out that communications are often down in zones most affected by the war, making this sort of cross-referencing a luxury many cannot afford. On Telegram’s website, it says that Pavel Durov “supports Telegram financially and ideologically while Nikolai (Duvov)’s input is technological.” Currently, the Telegram team is based in Dubai, having moved around from Berlin, London and Singapore after departing Russia. Meanwhile, the company which owns Telegram is registered in the British Virgin Islands. The fake Zelenskiy account reached 20,000 followers on Telegram before it was shut down, a remedial action that experts say is all too rare.
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