In the Beta version of Telegram for Android, any channel administrator can now choose the sender's identity for a post. The selection menu includes the administrator’s personal account, the current channel, and any other public channels owned by the administrator.
Additionally, a new setting called “Show Authors' Profiles” has been added under “Administrators.” When enabled, an icon indicating the sender of the post will appear to the left of the post on the channel. Any channel administrator can manage this option, regardless of their permissions.
The “Sign Messages” setting, which was previously located on the main channel settings screen, is now available in this section. When disabled, the text input field for messages will show “Anonymous Message” instead of “Publication.”
In the Beta version of Telegram for Android, any channel administrator can now choose the sender's identity for a post. The selection menu includes the administrator’s personal account, the current channel, and any other public channels owned by the administrator.
Additionally, a new setting called “Show Authors' Profiles” has been added under “Administrators.” When enabled, an icon indicating the sender of the post will appear to the left of the post on the channel. Any channel administrator can manage this option, regardless of their permissions.
The “Sign Messages” setting, which was previously located on the main channel settings screen, is now available in this section. When disabled, the text input field for messages will show “Anonymous Message” instead of “Publication.”
Individual messages can be fully encrypted. But the user has to turn on that function. It's not automatic, as it is on Signal and WhatsApp. Sebi said data, emails and other documents are being retrieved from the seized devices and detailed investigation is in progress. At the start of 2018, the company attempted to launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which would enable it to enable payments (and earn the cash that comes from doing so). The initial signals were promising, especially given Telegram’s user base is already fairly crypto-savvy. It raised an initial tranche of cash – worth more than a billion dollars – to help develop the coin before opening sales to the public. Unfortunately, third-party sales of coins bought in those initial fundraising rounds raised the ire of the SEC, which brought the hammer down on the whole operation. In 2020, officials ordered Telegram to pay a fine of $18.5 million and hand back much of the cash that it had raised. He said that since his platform does not have the capacity to check all channels, it may restrict some in Russia and Ukraine "for the duration of the conflict," but then reversed course hours later after many users complained that Telegram was an important source of information. These entities are reportedly operating nine Telegram channels with more than five million subscribers to whom they were making recommendations on selected listed scrips. Such recommendations induced the investors to deal in the said scrips, thereby creating artificial volume and price rise.
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