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Ukraine limits the use of Telegram, warning of security risks
Kyiv has told officials and soldiers to stop using one of Ukraine’s most popular messenger services.
It has also been used widely during the war for everything from organizing evacuations to sending alerts about incoming missile attacks, the Financial Times reported, and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy often uses it to make announcements. But the unmoderated app has also raised concerns, with some calling for a total ban, which Kyiv enforced for the Russian social networks VKontakte and Odnoklassniki. Telegram’s laissez faire approach to content moderation led to the arrest of its CEO Pavel Durov last month in Paris, where he is accused of allowing criminal activity on the app.
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