However, Telegram says it does not succumb to “government censorship”. Telegram is very popular among activists as well as protesters in Germany. A large part of this is because other social media platforms like Facebook help the government monitor content related to lies, scares or conspiracies.
There has been no response from Telegram in this regard. A group of demonstrators held torches outside the home of Boris Pistorius, Saxony’s regional interior minister, last month. Boris told Der Spiegel, “What is happening on Telegram groups and channels is against the compliance rules of Apple and Google, whose app stores have this app available.” He said that after talking to these companies about this, they should be persuaded to stop distributing Telegram.
Germany has strict compliance rules for social media networks. Under these, social media networks are required to report radical content immediately. However, Telegram has not responded to requests from Germany’s Justice Ministry to help identify those who posted such content. Apart from Germany, Telegram is also very popular among opposition parties in Russia and Belarus.
Recently, Telegram was greatly benefited by the closure of Facebook for a few hours and it has added more than 70 million new users. Telegram founder Pavel Durov gave this information. During the shutdown of Facebook, people around the world could not get messaging service from Facebook or any messaging app associated with it for 6 hours. The reason for this was attributed by Facebook to an error during the configuration change.
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