About 70 percent of Ukraine’s population uses Telegram as their main source of news, but the government is worried that the app is being used as a method of disinformation and spying by Russia. They are trying to pivot to apps like Signal instead, but it is difficult to break the habit of such a majority of the country.

  • Of course they would do that. Nobody would use it if the server was in putin’s bedroom.

    Unless it’s auditted and open source then you should assume its spyware.

    • Bobr
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      Unless it’s auditted and open source then you should assume its spyware.

      I do. I use Matrix and recommend it to all my friends.

      “Telegram is spyware” was not the original thesis I replied to, it was about “operated by the enemy”.