ثمة لحظة يكتشف بها المرء كم كان مغفلاً في اختياراته، كم كان مندفعًا وساذجًا وقت تصديقه للكلمات، كم كان على خطأ حين سمح للأخطاء أن تتكرر، وكم يبدو على حقٍ الآن حين اختار الانسحاب من أجل سلامته."
ثمة لحظة يكتشف بها المرء كم كان مغفلاً في اختياراته، كم كان مندفعًا وساذجًا وقت تصديقه للكلمات، كم كان على خطأ حين سمح للأخطاء أن تتكرر، وكم يبدو على حقٍ الآن حين اختار الانسحاب من أجل سلامته."
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. Lastly, the web previews of t.me links have been given a new look, adding chat backgrounds and design elements from the fully-features Telegram Web client. 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. "He has kind of an old-school cyber-libertarian world view where technology is there to set you free," Maréchal said. However, the perpetrators of such frauds are now adopting new methods and technologies to defraud the investors.
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