Telegram
Telegram on podcasts: where it advertises, what it's offering listeners, and what hosts say about it when they're not being paid.
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“chat, "The Telegram's a huge red flag." And yes, that's like where Andrew Tate and the Manosphere guys operate and sell courses to children and stuff like that.”
Telegram is criticized as a platform where Andrew Tate and manosphere figures operate and sell courses to children.
▶ Hear it“The really big problem is on WhatsApp, Signal, iMessage, Telegram, and by the way, Telegram's creepy. Um, all of those applications disguise themselves as you sending something to somebody else, but you're really sending something to a server and then the server is then having the other person pull that.”
Explicitly called 'creepy' and criticized for routing data through servers rather than peer-to-peer communication.
▶ Hear it“conversation to an encrypted messaging platform like WhatsApp or Telegram. They invest time in understanding the person's financial situation”
Mentioned as an encrypted messaging platform used by scammers alongside WhatsApp.
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