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The problem with Telegram
On The Vergecast: Pavel Durov, Yelp v. Google, and Grok’s deepfakes.
By David Pierce, editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with over a decade of experience covering consumer tech. There’s a lot about this story we don’t yet know, but this week’s events seem to signal a shift in how countries and governments plan to hold executives accountable for what happens on their platforms. We talk about what makes Telegram different from WhatsApp or Facebook, the ways Durov set up and operated the company that may have made this confrontation inevitable, and whether this will have a ripple effect on the rest of the social internet.
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