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Under pressure to shut down and expose opposition groups operating on the platform, Durov abandoned the company and fled Russia to set up something more resistant to government oversight.
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]
Telegram, based in Dubai, was founded by Durov, who left Russia in 2014 after he refused to comply with demands to shut down opposition communities on his VK social media platform, which he has sold.
[8] [9] Telegram's appeal to the Russian Supreme Court was rejected. [10] In April 2020, the Government of Russia started using the blocked Telegram platform to spread information related to COVID-19 outbreak. On 18 June 2020 Roskomnadzor lifted its ban on Telegram after it 'agrees to help with extremism investigations'. [2]
YouTube also went down as users found themselves able to access Meta platforms for the first time in two years
The Google Public DNS service also slowed down as a result of the outage, [19] while users of Gmail, TikTok, and Snapchat also experienced slowdowns. [20] CNBC reported that the outage was the worst experienced by Facebook since 2008. [ 21 ]
Only Telegram’s opt-in ‘secret chat’ feature is end-to-end encrypted, which would prevent Telegram from accessing the chat contents.” Telegram says it has more than 950 million active users.
This year, South Koreans have made more than 6,300 requests for help from the Korea Communications Standards Commission to have sexually explicit deepfake content taken down.