{"id":418876,"date":"2022-03-19T12:41:41","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T09:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/telegram-booms-as-russias-digital-landscape-shrinks\/"},"modified":"2022-03-19T12:41:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T09:41:41","slug":"telegram-booms-as-russias-digital-landscape-shrinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/telegram-booms-as-russias-digital-landscape-shrinks\/","title":{"rendered":"#Telegram booms as Russia&#8217;s digital landscape shrinks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2933e59e5d7\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2933e59e5d7\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/telegram-booms-as-russias-digital-landscape-shrinks\/#%E2%80%9CTelegram_booms_as_Russias_digital_landscape_shrinks%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Telegram booms as Russia&#8217;s digital landscape shrinks&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CTelegram_booms_as_Russias_digital_landscape_shrinks%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Telegram booms as Russia&#8217;s digital landscape shrinks&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-gallery lightGallery\">\n<div data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2022\/telegram-messaging-app.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/2022\/telegram-messaging-app.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Telegram messaging app has boomed amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\">\n<figure class=\"article-img\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2022\/telegram-messaging-app.jpg\" alt=\"Telegram messaging app has boomed amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine\" title=\"Telegram messaging app has boomed amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-darken text-low-up text-truncate-js text-truncate mt-3\">\n                Telegram messaging <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a> has boomed amid Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine.<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Telegram messaging app has become a go-to platform since Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine, despite concerns over its data security and defenses against misinformation.<\/p>\n<p>                                                                                It has benefitted from the gap left by Russia&#8217;s blocking of Facebook and Instagram, offering a platform for mass messaging in a way similar to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The platform also provides one of the last windows on Russia, but also an open channel to the horrors facing an under siege Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our main hope is connected with Telegram channel,&#8221; Galina Timchenko, director of the independent <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> site Meduza that Russia has moved to block, told the Committee to Protect Journalists.<\/p>\n<p>According to daily figures provided by Telegram, the app has been downloaded over 150 million times since the beginning of the year, with the official figure of half a billion active users dating back to January 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to Moscow&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine, Telegram benefitted from not using the same economic model of the big American platforms that generate revenue with data on their users.<\/p>\n<p>Downloads jumped in 2021 when a report from ProPublica investigative journalists claimed that Facebook teams were viewing messages sent via WhatsApp, contrary to company assurances.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Telegram has benefitted from the image of its creators, brothers Pavel and Nikolai Durov, Russian citizens who left their home country in 2014. <\/p>\n<p>Under pressure from the authorities, Nikolai sold his stake in VK, which he had created, rather than hand over the personal data of activists to the government.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Telegram is now a very nice revenge story, and we all love a good revenge story,&#8221; said Enrique Dans, a professor specializing in information systems at the IE Business School in Madrid. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Will that be enough to make Telegram the world&#8217;s favorite messaging app? That&#8217;s a whole lot to say. The app still has a lot of things to demonstrate in areas such as security, encryption and business model,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>While the platform run from Dubai claims to be secure, it does not encrypt messages by default, as does the Meta owned WhatsApp says it does.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, &#8220;Telegram&#8217;s profile has grown enormously in recent weeks, and that has raised the stakes about the impact of misinformation on the platform, said Jamie MacEwan, a media analyst at Enders Analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Messaging platforms in <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> have long faced criticism over their capacity to combat misinformation.<\/p>\n<p>Contacted by AFP, Telegram said it employs &#8220;several hundred professional moderators to keep the platform safe for users&#8221;, a team that is &#8220;constantly growing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Meta employs tens of thousands of moderators and huge problems still slip through the net,&#8221; said MacEwan, &#8220;It is unclear how much investment in moderation Telegram can support on its current funding model.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s model was fully funded by Pavel Durov until 2018, before raising $1.7 billion from investors, with the hope of launching its own cryptocurrency and becoming an alternative to Visa and Mastercard.<\/p>\n<p>But the project fell through due to lack of regulatory approval in the United States, and the company repaid most of the funds.<\/p>\n<p>Entirely free, Telegram started advertising last year, but with a reduced, highly regulated offering, and guaranteeing that it would not use users&#8217; private data for targeting.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2021, the Russian business daily Vedomosti reported that the company was preparing to go public in 2023, and was aiming for a valuation of between $30 billion and $50 billion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The value that Telegram could eventually reach if it goes public depends strongly on its monetization strategy and Durov has not been very clear on that yet,&#8221; said Dans.\n                                                                                                                        <\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<div class=\"article-main__explore my-4 d-print-none\">\n<p>                                            Telegram app raises $1 bn by selling bonds: founder\n                                        <\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"mb-4\"\/>\n<p class=\"article-main__note mt-4\">\n                                                \u00a9 2022 AFP<\/p>\n<p>                                        <!-- print only --><\/p>\n<div class=\"d-none d-print-block\">\n<p>                                                 <strong>Citation<\/strong>:<br \/>\n                                                 Telegram booms as Russia&#8217;s digital landscape shrinks (2022, March 19)<br \/>\n                                                 retrieved 20 March 2022<br \/>\n                                                 from https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2022-03-telegram-booms-russia-digital-landscape.html<\/p>\n<p>                                            This document is subject to copyright. 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