{"id":848415,"date":"2024-08-27T10:48:15","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T05:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=848415"},"modified":"2024-08-27T10:50:44","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T05:20:44","slug":"telegram-becomes-free-speech-flashpoint-after-founders-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/08\/27\/telegram-becomes-free-speech-flashpoint-after-founders-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Telegram becomes free speech flashpoint after founder\u2019s arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telegram, founded in 2013 by Russian entrepreneur Pavel Durov, has grown into one of the world\u2019s largest online communication tools and is central to everyday life in countries including Russia, Ukraine and India for messaging, getting independent news and exchanging views.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s growth \u2014 it now has more than 900 million users \u2014 has been driven partly by a commitment to free speech. Telegram\u2019s light oversight of what people say or do on the platform has helped people living under authoritarian governments communicate and organize. But it has also made the app a haven for disinformation, far-right extremism and other harmful content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telegram, founded in 2013 by Russian entrepreneur Pavel Durov, has grown into one of the world\u2019s largest online communication tools and is central to everyday life in countries including Russia, Ukraine and India for messaging, getting independent news and exchanging views. The company\u2019s growth \u2014 it now has more than 900 million users \u2014 has been driven partly by a commitment to free speech. Telegram\u2019s light oversight of what people say or do on the platform has helped people living under authoritarian governments communicate and organize. But it has also made the app a haven for disinformation, far-right extremism and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-848415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}