"And that set off kind of a battle royale for control of the platform that Durov eventually lost," said Nathalie Maréchal of the Washington advocacy group Ranking Digital Rights. READ MORE I want a secure messaging app, should I use Telegram? "He has kind of an old-school cyber-libertarian world view where technology is there to set you free," Maréchal said. Two days after Russia invaded Ukraine, an account on the Telegram messaging platform posing as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged his armed forces to surrender.
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