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.
One thing that Telegram now offers to all users is the ability to “disappear” messages or set remote deletion deadlines. That enables users to have much more control over how long people can access what you’re sending them. Given that Russian law enforcement officials are reportedly (via Insider) stopping people in the street and demanding to read their text messages, this could be vital to protect individuals from reprisals. A Russian Telegram channel with over 700,000 followers is spreading disinformation about Russia's invasion of Ukraine under the guise of providing "objective information" and fact-checking fake news. Its influence extends beyond the platform, with major Russian publications, government officials, and journalists citing the page's posts. "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. "Someone posing as a Ukrainian citizen just joins the chat and starts spreading misinformation, or gathers data, like the location of shelters," Tsekhanovska said, noting how false messages have urged Ukrainians to turn off their phones at a specific time of night, citing cybersafety. "We as Ukrainians believe that the truth is on our side, whether it's truth that you're proclaiming about the war and everything else, why would you want to hide it?," he said.
from jp
