"تغيرت في حياتنا كثير من المفاهيم .. أدركنا أن الوضوح الشديد شيء سيء ؛ وأن الغموض مطلوب ؛ وأن الابتسامة لها أكثر من معنى ؛ وأن بعض الوجوه من حولنا ترتدي أكثر من قناع ؛ وأن مواقف بسيطة قد تجعلنا نعيد ترتيب الأشخاص من جديد .."
"تغيرت في حياتنا كثير من المفاهيم .. أدركنا أن الوضوح الشديد شيء سيء ؛ وأن الغموض مطلوب ؛ وأن الابتسامة لها أكثر من معنى ؛ وأن بعض الوجوه من حولنا ترتدي أكثر من قناع ؛ وأن مواقف بسيطة قد تجعلنا نعيد ترتيب الأشخاص من جديد .."
On February 27th, Durov posted that Channels were becoming a source of unverified information and that the company lacks the ability to check on their veracity. He urged users to be mistrustful of the things shared on Channels, and initially threatened to block the feature in the countries involved for the length of the war, saying that he didn’t want Telegram to be used to aggravate conflict or incite ethnic hatred. He did, however, walk back this plan when it became clear that they had also become a vital communications tool for Ukrainian officials and citizens to help coordinate their resistance and evacuations. Telegram, which does little policing of its content, has also became a hub for Russian propaganda and misinformation. Many pro-Kremlin channels have become popular, alongside accounts of journalists and other independent observers. Groups are also not fully encrypted, end-to-end. This includes private groups. Private groups cannot be seen by other Telegram users, but Telegram itself can see the groups and all of the communications that you have in them. All of the same risks and warnings about channels can be applied to groups. At its heart, Telegram is little more than a messaging app like WhatsApp or Signal. But it also offers open channels that enable a single user, or a group of users, to communicate with large numbers in a method similar to a Twitter account. This has proven to be both a blessing and a curse for Telegram and its users, since these channels can be used for both good and ill. Right now, as Wired reports, the app is a key way for Ukrainians to receive updates from the government during the invasion. "There is a significant risk of insider threat or hacking of Telegram systems that could expose all of these chats to the Russian government," said Eva Galperin with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has called for Telegram to improve its privacy practices.
from cn
