Alex Thomson 🇬🇧▐ Matthew Ehret 🇨🇦▐ Brian Gerrish 🇬🇧▐ Debi Evans 🇬🇧▐ Whitney Webb 🇺🇸▐ James Bush 🇺🇸▐ Dr. Silvia Behrendt 🇦🇹▐ Dr. Astrid Stuckelberger🇨🇭▐
Alex Thomson 🇬🇧▐ Matthew Ehret 🇨🇦▐ Brian Gerrish 🇬🇧▐ Debi Evans 🇬🇧▐ Whitney Webb 🇺🇸▐ James Bush 🇺🇸▐ Dr. Silvia Behrendt 🇦🇹▐ Dr. Astrid Stuckelberger🇨🇭▐
What distinguishes the app from competitors is its use of what's known as channels: Public or private feeds of photos and videos that can be set up by one person or an organization. The channels have become popular with on-the-ground journalists, aid workers and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who broadcasts on a Telegram channel. The channels can be followed by an unlimited number of people. Unlike Facebook, Twitter and other popular social networks, there is no advertising on Telegram and the flow of information is not driven by an algorithm. In a statement, the regulator said the search and seizure operation was carried out against seven individuals and one corporate entity at multiple locations in Ahmedabad and Bhavnagar in Gujarat, Neemuch in Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, and Mumbai. 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. "The argument from Telegram is, 'You should trust us because we tell you that we're trustworthy,'" Maréchal said. "It's really in the eye of the beholder whether that's something you want to buy into." Emerson Brooking, a disinformation expert at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, said: "Back in the Wild West period of content moderation, like 2014 or 2015, maybe they could have gotten away with it, but it stands in marked contrast with how other companies run themselves today."
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