Telegram (software)

Telegram is a cloud-based, cross-platform social media and instant messaging (IM) service. It launched for iOS on 14 August 2013 and Android on 20 October 2013. It allows users to exchange messages, share media and files, and hold private and group voice or video calls as well as public livestreams. It is available for Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, Linux, and web browsers. Telegram offers end-to-end encryption in voice and video calls, and optionally in private chats if both participants use a mobile device.

Russian programmer and mathematician

case of commercial sexual exploitation of children using Telegram and Discord in South Korea since the summer of 2018

arrest of Pavel Durov, CEO of Telegram, on 24 August 2024 in Paris

Telegramgate, also known as Chatgate, RickyLeaks and '''Verano del '19''' (), was a political scandal involving Ricardo Rosselló, then Governor of Puerto Rico, which began on July 8, 2019, with the leak of hundreds of pages of a group chat on the messaging application Telegram between Rosselló and members of his cabinet. The document exposed racist and homophobic conversations that targeted several individuals and groups, including discussions on how the members of the group chat would conspire to use the media to their gain and target their political opponents. The leak came in the midst of a

German blogger

thumb|150px|Logo of Terrorgram, which is a combination of the Telegram app logo and Waffen-SS insignia Terrorgram (sometimes stylized in all caps) is a far-right, decentralized network of Telegram channels and accounts that subscribe to or promote militant accelerationism. Terrorgram channels are neo-fascist in ideology, and regularly share instructions and manuals on how to carry out hate crimes, mass shootings and target critical infrastructure and even lists of potential targets. Terrorgram is a key communications forum for individuals and networks attached to Atomwaffen Division, The Base,