About 70 percent of Ukraine’s population uses Telegram as their main source of news, but the government is worried that the app is being used as a method of disinformation and spying by Russia. They are trying to pivot to apps like Signal instead, but it is difficult to break the habit of such a majority of the country.

  • granolabar@kbin.melroy.org
    1110·
    9 days ago

    Indeed but my point here is that Ukraine is at war with Russia…

    Ukraine is not at war with US. So risk is Microsoft being imbeciles… Russia literally wants Ukraine wiped out and yet the idiots unable to change an app on their phone because “network effects and habit”

    Just wow

    • Bobr@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org
      1013·
      9 days ago

      Russia literally wants Ukraine wiped out and yet the idiots unable to change an app on their phone because “network effects and habit”

      The thing with Zelensky’s propaganda is that externally (with people familiar with the situation only from CNN (or whever you get your information from…)) it works an order of magnitude better than internally… :)

      So “idiots” use Telegram because not only they see no threat in it (why would they?), but also because it helps to avoid the very real threat of “lawful mobilization actions” by the government.