WhatsApp’s most direct competitor is none other than Telegram, a messaging app with 900 million users. It currently has almost a billion users platform policy Change after the arrest of CEO Pavel Durov (and all the controversy).

Telegram will comply with governments requesting information, give them user data in some cases. So it seems like a page is closing in the long history of the messaging app. That’s what’s changed.

Telegraph at the disposal of justice

The platform’s CEO Pavel Durov himself made the announcement. Radical change in Telegram’s usage and privacy policy. Will now provide authorities with user data: IP addresses and phone numbers.

This is a rather abrupt change, considering Telegram’s secretive history of never bowing to government demands. To prevent this, you should accusations of promoting illegal content and allow actions of questionable legality.

Arrest of Pavel Durov last August triggered a series of consequences continues to give us something to talk about. First, Telegram made it easier to report content on the app. Then it shut down its own article platform, Telegraph, losing a traditional feature.

Moderation is the focus. It will now implement new moderation measures to hide and remove problematic content from search results. It will use both human reviewers and AI bots to do this.

The upheaval was necessary to change the messaging app’s traditions, which Russia tried to block in 2018 on the grounds that it did not pass data to its own government. It will now do so when necessary and is no exception in a world that is now opening up to the digital world. arrangementespecially when it comes to communication platforms.

via | Xataka

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