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Based on media reports, Telegram has been continually used by a hostile autocratic government to recruit, organize and direct various gray-zone attacks against Europe, on European soil.

Now it sounds like Europe finally put the foot down.

And why wouldn't they?

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Telegram is also one of the very few places where ordinary Russians can read alt-news and not only Kremlin-approved propaganda. And Russia's stringent internet censorship is only tightening as years go by.

Spoken like a person who had never ever accessed a single resources in Ru-net, nor interacted with people on their social media platforms.

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