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Re:Telegram, Pro-Democracy Tool, Struggles over New Fans fro... by adamcstephens on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @08:27AM (#25915511)
“ Mr. Durov said that 94 percent of Telegram’s 25 million new users came from Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa.

Some have come to Telegram out of privacy fears after WhatsApp informed its customers that it was sharing information with its parent company, Facebook.”

But sure, let’s frame it as the far right flooding the platform.

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Re:Telegram, Pro-Democracy Tool, Struggles over New Fans fro... by swirepe on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @08:59AM (#25915786)
>Twenty-five million new users flooded Telegram in the days after Twitter and Facebook, reacting to the Jan. 6 mayhem at the Capitol, purged users they deemed responsible for having incited violence or spread disinformation.

That sounds like a flood from the far right to me.

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Re:Telegram, Pro-Democracy Tool, Struggles over New Fans fro... by finiteseries on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @09:51AM (#25916331)
January 6th was the exact day WhatsApp sent every user in the world an announcement forcing them to let Facebook collect their data.
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