Groups. Up to 200,000 people can talk, text and share media in group chats.
Groups can be privateorpublic and offer powerful admin tools to manage discussions of any size – including polls to make group decisions and video chats with screensharing.
Any group can enable Topics to create separate spaces for discussing work, hobbies and more.
Groups. Up to 200,000 people can talk, text and share media in group chats.
Groups can be privateorpublic and offer powerful admin tools to manage discussions of any size – including polls to make group decisions and video chats with screensharing.
Any group can enable Topics to create separate spaces for discussing work, hobbies and more.
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. Either way, Durov says that he withdrew his resignation but that he was ousted from his company anyway. Subsequently, control of the company was reportedly handed to oligarchs Alisher Usmanov and Igor Sechin, both allegedly close associates of Russian leader Vladimir Putin. "For Telegram, accountability has always been a problem, which is why it was so popular even before the full-scale war with far-right extremists and terrorists from all over the world," she told AFP from her safe house outside the Ukrainian capital. Emerson Brooking, a disinformation expert at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, said: "Back in the Wild West period of content moderation, like 2014 or 2015, maybe they could have gotten away with it, but it stands in marked contrast with how other companies run themselves today."
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