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Telegram was a key platform for sharing information and coordinating rallies during the 2020–2021 Belarusian protests. [3] Telegram was one of few communication platforms available in Belarus during the three days of internet shutdown that followed the day of the presidential election, which Belarus's president Alexander Lukashenko won amid widespread allegations of election fraud. [4]
On 13 April 2018, messaging service Telegram was banned by court order for refusing to grant the Federal Security Service (FSB) access to encrypted user communications. [58] [59] The ban has been enforced via the blockage of over 15.8 million IP addresses.
Thailand Post discontinued telegram service on 30 April 2008, at 20.00 local time. Turkey: Yes – PTT has been providing telegram service in Turkey since 1855. Ukraine: No 2018 Ukrtelecom discontinued telegram service on 1 March 2018. United Kingdom: No 1982 After 1982, British Telecom maintained a telemessage service to replace telegrams.
Telegram has offered a platform to everyone from QAnon conspiracy theorists to Hamas, while it also became the go-to platform for organisers and participants of the recent riots in the UK.
In some parts of the world, though, the just-about-anything-goes messaging app is a big deal. Which is why the arrest of its founder, and the questions that raises, is a big deal, too.
With the world waiting for a promised ground invasion by Israel, Russian social media app Telegram has become a go-to place for following the war.
On April 22, 2018, "an action in support of free Internet" was held in multiple cities around Russia, timed to the seventh day of Telegram's being blocked. Residents of Russia launched paper airplanes (the symbol of Telegram) from the roofs of various buildings. The protest was planned on Telegram on the morning of April 22.
For several years, the European Union—which has some of the strictest content policies in the world—has been trying to wrangle Telegram and its large European user base into cooperation with ...