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Potential conflicts of interest, no "smoking gun" as headline implies... Yet again.
Do I trust Telegram? No.
But there's less evidence of wrongdoing at the moment by orders of magnitude than WhatsApp, etc.
I do appreciate the conversation, but holy hell the same connect-the-dots is never made about WhatsApp. Makes me wonder who's pushing these stories.
Good journalism would cover the issues with all the mainstream comm systems.
That's not what this piece is about though. It's not a comparison, it's specifically about telegram. Their CFO has a contract with the FSB, do with that what you will. Durov has also said that he's never been back to Russia since, that's been proven false, he's been back more than 50 times.
This article is basically a summary of the report it links to.
Fwiw I don't use WhatsApp either, I use SimpleX with Signal as a backup.