Russian communications officials continue to claim that the popular messaging platform Telegram violates national regulations. The ongoing conflict highlights tensions between the messaging service and Moscow authorities over content moderation and platform control.
MOSCOW – Russia’s state communications oversight agency declared Wednesday that the widely-used Telegram messaging platform continues to violate the country’s regulations, according to reports from the state-operated RIA news service.
Officials in Moscow have consistently charged Telegram, which ranks among Russia’s most widely-adopted messaging applications, with permitting its platform to host unlawful and radical material.
The messaging service disputes these allegations and has countered that Russian officials are deliberately slowing down its operations in an effort to push users toward MAX, a government-controlled messaging application.
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