Russia’s marketing campaign to limit entry to Twitter, Fb and different sources of uncensored data on its invasion of Ukraine has skipped one essential platform: the social media and chat app Telegram.
Anybody in Russia who wished to observe Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s tackle to Congress on Wednesday may discover it on Telegram, together with pictures of Russia bombing civilian areas in Ukraine. Customers are decamping en masse to Telegram from banned apps like Meta Platforms Inc.’s Instagram in addition to others which can be beneath risk of being blocked, like Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube.
