How Telegram Became the Underworld’s Favorite App

A Times investigation has found that Telegram, one of the world’s biggest messaging apps, with nearly a billion users, is also a giant black market and gathering place for the likes of terrorists and white supremacists.
Adam Satariano, a technology reporter for The Times, discusses the story of Telegram and the arrest of its founder, Pavel Durov.
Guest: Adam Satariano (www.nytimes.co...) , a technology correspondent for The New York Times.
Background reading:
• How Telegram became a playground for criminals, extremists and terrorists (www.nytimes.co...) .
• The criminal charges against Pavel Durov (www.nytimes.co...) raised concerns in Silicon Valley about encryption and Telegram’s approach to privacy and security.
For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily (nytimes.com/the...) . Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.

[@samuraijack1371]

"free", "freedom" its such as superficial term is "freely" thrown around by people who understand it the least.

[@MGPCycling]

The point of encryption is clearly lost. Can and will it be used by the criminal element? Yes. But that's the price we pay for our own freedom from surveillance

[@Dara-wk5ty]

Its lack of rules makes it so good in the first place

[@Chris-PCr33m]

Dang, I thought it was just for PokemonGO raids...

[@LearnedSome]

The funny thing is if they ever close down Telegram there'll be a new one in a matter of hours.

[@claireconover]

yes and no. if twitter’s death and x’s irrelevance taught us anything it’s that every new opening in the social sphere will be filled with multiple new apps, none of them capturing the market. each new app only gains a smaller audience.

[@ironfist458]

America is a corporation NOT a country. People still don’t understand that. 😂😂😂😂

[@ShankarSivarajan]

21:30 Russia is not meaningfully different in this respect from the US or France, just with "far right" or "white supremacist" instead.