After fleeing Russia, the brothers founded Telegram as a way to communicate outside the Kremlin's orbit. They now run it from Dubai, and Pavel Durov says it has more than 500 million monthly active users. WhatsApp, a rival messaging platform, introduced some measures to counter disinformation when Covid-19 was first sweeping the world. I want a secure messaging app, should I use Telegram? "He has kind of an old-school cyber-libertarian world view where technology is there to set you free," Maréchal said. 'Wild West'
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