About 70 percent of Ukraine’s population uses Telegram as their main source of news, but the government is worried that the app is being used as a method of disinformation and spying by Russia. They are trying to pivot to apps like Signal instead, but it is difficult to break the habit of such a majority of the country.

  • Petter1@lemm.ee
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    17 days ago

    As if telegram was better than signal in avoiding state sniffing. Security by design is always better than security by trust.