Telegram messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests

Re:Telegram messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests by thereare5lights on Friday August 21, 2020 @04:33PM (#24238597)

What does that have to do with the fact that the number of telegram users that voted for the opposition candidate exceeds the official number of voters that voted for the opposition candidate?

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Re:Telegram messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests by vbezhenar on Friday August 21, 2020 @06:05PM (#24239353)

Phone number is not an unique identifier. There are plenty of people who use multiple phone numbers.

While I don't believe in Belarus official results, that Telegram evidence is not a real evidence. It's just a hint.

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Re:Telegram messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests by asutekku on Friday August 21, 2020 @06:24PM (#24239509)

I very highly doubt around double the amount of ”official” voters would have a second belarussian number.

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Re:Telegram messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests by tripzilch on Saturday August 22, 2020 @04:34AM (#24242689)

Also, they have to decide to actually use that second number to cheat in a Telegram poll significantly more often than people of the other party.

Otherwise you can only draw your error bars equally in both ways at once, and then they need to be pretty large before the numbers stop saying what they clearly are saying.

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