Source link ‘Russia’s Facebook’ messaging platform now also has a new channel, created by the US journalist Russian-born IT entrepreneur Pavel Durov has teased a “very rare” video conversation with Tucker Carlson, recorded around the same time as the American journalist’s visit to Russia and his famous sit-down there with President Vladimir Putin. St Petersburg-born […]
Source link CEO Pavel Durov claims to have banned thousands of users for inciting violence after the Crocus City Hall attack Telegram has clamped down on users involved in spreading calls for terrorist acts, and will be implementing technological hurdles to limit such activity in the future, the messenger app’s founder Pavel Durov wrote on […]
Source link A chat on the popular app was allegedly used by organizers of the concert hall massacre in Russia to recruit the perpetrators Telegram should work harder to deny terrorists the use of its platform, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said in the wake of the Crocus City Hall attack. The alleged perpetrators of […]
Source link Ukraine can use Telegram for influence operations but the messaging application still represents a threat, the head of the Ukrainian military intelligence service (GUR), Kirill Budanov, said on Wednesday. In comments sent to the media by Kiev’s Center for Strategic Communications, Budanov admitted the wide reach of the encrypted instant-messaging platform, calling it […]
Source link Spain’s National Court has ordered internet providers to suspend the use of the Telegram instant messaging service, pending an investigation into the claims of copyright infringement. Friday’s ruling came after Spain’s four leading media organizations – Mediaset, Atresmedia, Movistar, and Egeda – filed a complaint arguing that the platform allows users to distribute […]
Source link The country’s military intelligence directorate said that the messenger may pose a security threat The Ukrainian parliament’s Freedom of Speech Committee has called for a ban on the messaging application Telegram, describing it as a threat to national security. Committee chair Yaroslav Yurchishin brought up the issue at Wednesday’s roundtable, ‘Journalistic standards and […]