⋆ ִֶָ ๋⋆𐙚 𝑰𝒕'𝒔 𝒏𝒚𝒎𝒑𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒚 ᡣ𐭩⋆ ִֶָ ๋⋆

Telegram boasts 500 million users, who share information individually and in groups in relative security. But Telegram's use as a one-way broadcast channel — which followers can join but not reply to — means content from inauthentic accounts can easily reach large, captive and eager audiences. Pavel Durov, Telegram's CEO, is known as "the Russian Mark Zuckerberg," for co-founding VKontakte, which is Russian for "in touch," a Facebook imitator that became the country's most popular social networking site. Telegram has become more interventionist over time, and has steadily increased its efforts to shut down these accounts. But this has also meant that the company has also engaged with lawmakers more generally, although it maintains that it doesn’t do so willingly. For instance, in September 2021, Telegram reportedly blocked a chat bot in support of (Putin critic) Alexei Navalny during Russia’s most recent parliamentary elections. Pavel Durov was quoted at the time saying that the company was obliged to follow a “legitimate” law of the land. He added that as Apple and Google both follow the law, to violate it would give both platforms a reason to boot the messenger from its stores. Telegram was founded in 2013 by two Russian brothers, Nikolai and Pavel Durov. "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 nl

Telegram ⋆ ִֶָ ๋⋆𐙚 𝑰𝒕'𝒔 𝒏𝒚𝒎𝒑𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒚 ᡣ𐭩⋆ ִֶָ ๋⋆
FROM American