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Telegram blocks ‘dozens’ of channels calling for violence

today14 January 2021

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Facebook isn’t the only platform with a violence problem.

A week after a group of pro-Donald Trump extremists occupied the U.S Capitol building, the popular messaging app Telegram confirmed Wednesday it blocked “dozens” of channels on its massively popular platform. The reason, reports CNN, was similar to why Reddit booted a popular pro-Trump subreddit last week: “calls to violence.”

“We welcome peaceful discussion and peaceful protests, but routinely remove publicly available content…

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