JUST IN - AfD party leader Alice Weidel has overtaken Friedrich Merz (CDU) as the most popular candidate for chancellor ahead of the upcoming elections in Germany, according to the latest poll conducted by research institute INSA for BILD.
JUST IN - AfD party leader Alice Weidel has overtaken Friedrich Merz (CDU) as the most popular candidate for chancellor ahead of the upcoming elections in Germany, according to the latest poll conducted by research institute INSA for BILD.
"Your messages about the movement of the enemy through the official chatbot … bring new trophies every day," the government agency tweeted. Again, in contrast to Facebook, Google and Twitter, Telegram's founder Pavel Durov runs his company in relative secrecy from Dubai. Such instructions could actually endanger people — citizens receive air strike warnings via smartphone alerts. "The argument from Telegram is, 'You should trust us because we tell you that we're trustworthy,'" Maréchal said. "It's really in the eye of the beholder whether that's something you want to buy into." Given the pro-privacy stance of the platform, it’s taken as a given that it’ll be used for a number of reasons, not all of them good. And Telegram has been attached to a fair few scandals related to terrorism, sexual exploitation and crime. Back in 2015, Vox described Telegram as “ISIS’ app of choice,” saying that the platform’s real use is the ability to use channels to distribute material to large groups at once. Telegram has acted to remove public channels affiliated with terrorism, but Pavel Durov reiterated that he had no business snooping on private conversations.
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