Telegram Apps on Google Play

Beginning in December 2016, Telegram began publishing daily moderation statistics regarding terror-related content in an official channel named @ISISwatch. Such content is usually linked to Telegram allowing misinformation on the platform as, according to Pavel Durov, “conspiracy theories only strengthen each time their content is removed by moderators”. Numerous research institutions and internet monitoring bodies have criticized Telegram because violent organizations like ISIS, Proud Boys, and the Myanmar junta used it to communicate, both privately between members and publicly through channel posts. In 2017, in an attempt to monetize Telegram…

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