Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov just made a statement about: Why The Brazilian Supreme Court is now suspending the app, and the reason is unbelievable. In the statement, which you can read in full below or on Durov’s Telegram channel, he says it was because his company check the wrong email address. “It appears we had a problem with emails going between our telegram.org business addresses and the Brazilian Supreme Court,” Durov says, explaining that his company has asked the court to send future takedown requests “to a special email.” email address.” But the court apparently didn’t — she continued to use “the old common email address” and Telegram somehow missed them, and now it’s being banned unless the court has mercy. The company says it has now found those emails (implying that at least the old address worked, making it even more bizarre that the emails were somehow missed), and is trying to resolve the situation with the to remedy the court. There is a lot of political context surrounding the ban, stemming from allegations that Telegram is facilitating the spread of disinformation, and my colleague Adi Robertson explains it clearly in this story. But to hear Telegram…
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