German agencies on a recent case with Gisele Pelicot, revealed a Telegram group with up to 70,000 members sharing methods of sexual assault https://redd.it/1hpnnqp @r_Damnthatsinteresting
German agencies on a recent case with Gisele Pelicot, revealed a Telegram group with up to 70,000 members sharing methods of sexual assault https://redd.it/1hpnnqp @r_Damnthatsinteresting
In 2018, Russia banned Telegram although it reversed the prohibition two years later. This ability to mix the public and the private, as well as the ability to use bots to engage with users has proved to be problematic. In early 2021, a database selling phone numbers pulled from Facebook was selling numbers for $20 per lookup. Similarly, security researchers found a network of deepfake bots on the platform that were generating images of people submitted by users to create non-consensual imagery, some of which involved children. "He has kind of an old-school cyber-libertarian world view where technology is there to set you free," Maréchal said. "There are several million Russians who can lift their head up from propaganda and try to look for other sources, and I'd say that most look for it on Telegram," he said. But Kliuchnikov, the Ukranian now in France, said he will use Signal or WhatsApp for sensitive conversations, but questions around privacy on Telegram do not give him pause when it comes to sharing information about the war.
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