@chrismessina The founder Pavel Durov is a fascinating guy too. He has personally funded TG since day one and seems he will never sell. Thanks for sharing Chris!

Wading into determining what is and isn't fake news is a massive can of worms even for giant companies like FB & Twitter, as you've seen from their experience. Nobody is happy regardless of what they do. Telegram doesn't have either the resources or desire to do what is basically impossible without adding a massive headache for themselves.

@maratryndin I understand what you said. But Telegram is a robust, creative and secure platform, it shouldn't settle for the situation just because it's something "complicated". Today, being "no man's land", digital platforms don't feel responsible for absurd maneuvers like Trump in the US and Bolsonaro in Brazil. It's sad. I particularly love Telegram, I was one of the first to use it in my bubble. Today I only use Whatsapp at work because I work with chatbots... but just like Twitter and Facebook, this dark side of amazing platforms needs a serious debate from the tech giants

I get where you're coming from but that's exactly my point. Telegram is not a tech giant. They don't have the enormous profits companies like Facebook and Twitter do. This is a really difficult problem that even they have had a tough time solving. Telegram doesn't have the resources needed and they also don't believe in being the content police.

@maratryndin yet they are. There are links that if you send them to a non-secure channel, you automatically get banned. I tried it once, had to contact support to get unblocked. They also clean out private groups of ISIS and other kinds of terrorists - I really doubt they report themselves.

ISIS groups are a very small percentage and it's pretty black and white. Fake news encompasses a massive amount of content and it's very subjective what is fake news. Facebook has very advanced algorithms to catch this type of content but it's still far from perfect and they employ an army of human reviewers which costs a lot. It's also not the world's most exciting job so there's huge turnover. Lastly, even with clear directions those decisions are still quite subjective.

@andrey_a_i_sitnik yeah, kind of, but they just publish the code, it is not 'open source' in any other way. Telegram X is still closed, and there is no room for collaboration anywhere. It is more to show 'they are cool' than to be useful.