The Telegram messaging app has become a go-to platform since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, despite concerns over its data security and defenses against misinformation.
It has benefited from the gap left by Russia’s blocking of Facebook and Instagram, offering a similar platform for mass messaging.
The platform also provides one of the last windows on Russia, but also an open channel to the horrors facing an under-siege Ukraine.
“Our main hope is connected with Telegram channel,” Galina Timchenko, director of the independent news site Meduza, which Russia has moved to block, told the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Telegram data showed that the
New York: The Telegram messaging app has become a go-to platform since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, despite concerns over its data security and defences against misinformation.
The Telegram messaging app has become a go-to platform since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, despite concerns over its data security and defenses against misinformation.