NOW - German president Steinmeier (SPD) on the upcoming election: "External influence is a danger to democracy, whether it is covert... or open and blatant, as is currently being practiced particularly intensively on the platform X."
NOW - German president Steinmeier (SPD) on the upcoming election: "External influence is a danger to democracy, whether it is covert... or open and blatant, as is currently being practiced particularly intensively on the platform X."
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. Telegram users are able to send files of any type up to 2GB each and access them from any device, with no limit on cloud storage, which has made downloading files more popular on the platform. The perpetrators use various names to carry out the investment scams. They may also impersonate or clone licensed capital market intermediaries by using the names, logos, credentials, websites and other details of the legitimate entities to promote the illegal schemes. Just days after Russia invaded Ukraine, Durov wrote that Telegram was "increasingly becoming a source of unverified information," and he worried about the app being used to "incite ethnic hatred." Also in the latest update is the ability for users to create a unique @username from the Settings page, providing others with an easy way to contact them via Search or their t.me/username link without sharing their phone number.
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