RT @mohamedbouhafsi: Un énorme merci pour tous vos messages pour mon anniversaire. Un grand merci aux 3 téléspectateurs de @cavousf5 pour leur lettre. Ça me va droit au cœur. Votre soutien, vos attentions sont pour moi des éléments qui forgent la même motivation depuis 12 ans.Sans vous il y a rien ♥️https://t.co/d1veUjXPU5 — Mohamed Bouhafsi (@mohamedbouhafsi) May 18, 2023
RT @mohamedbouhafsi: Un énorme merci pour tous vos messages pour mon anniversaire. Un grand merci aux 3 téléspectateurs de @cavousf5 pour leur lettre. Ça me va droit au cœur. Votre soutien, vos attentions sont pour moi des éléments qui forgent la même motivation depuis 12 ans.Sans vous il y a rien ♥️https://t.co/d1veUjXPU5 — Mohamed Bouhafsi (@mohamedbouhafsi) May 18, 2023
Now safely in France with his spouse and three of his children, Kliuchnikov scrolls through Telegram to learn about the devastation happening in his home country. Given the pro-privacy stance of the platform, it’s taken as a given that it’ll be used for a number of reasons, not all of them good. And Telegram has been attached to a fair few scandals related to terrorism, sexual exploitation and crime. Back in 2015, Vox described Telegram as “ISIS’ app of choice,” saying that the platform’s real use is the ability to use channels to distribute material to large groups at once. Telegram has acted to remove public channels affiliated with terrorism, but Pavel Durov reiterated that he had no business snooping on private conversations. I want a secure messaging app, should I use Telegram? 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. 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.
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