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Is Telegram, Ukraine’s most popular messenger app, a Russian Trojan horse? (kyivindependent.com)
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[–] doo 5 points 3 months ago

The facts are:

  • russia spent a lot of effort trying to ban it
  • eventually they "convinced" durov to cooperate to fight terrorism and removed the ban
  • in russia fighting terrorism is applied to anything

Yes, I don't have evidence that the messages are accessed, only that the access is given and that all of that is happening in a country with a blatant disregard to law from the government.