@EmmanuelMacron The majority of the $69B datacenter investment in France is based on a UAE intention that is neither finalized nor binding. Given the anti-tech stance of your 🤡 government, it would be a miracle if this investment ever materializes.

@alexgcalvet Hated leaders often try to silence critics through censorship laws to avoid accountability. Pedro Sanchez started his war on free speech online after the corruption of his family members got exposed on social media.

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Directly downloadable from telegram.org/android

Bot API 9.4

🎨 Custom Emoji and Buttons
• Bots can now use custom emoji in outgoing messages if their owner has Telegram Premium.
• Keyboard and inline buttons now support background colors and custom emoji.

💬 Private Chat Topics
• Bots can now create new…

Russia is restricting access to Telegram in an attempt to force its citizens to switch to a state-controlled app built for surveillance and political censorship.

8 years ago, Iran tried the same strategy — and failed. It banned Telegram on made-up pretexts…

Russia is restricting access to Telegram to force its citizens onto a state-controlled app built for surveillance and political censorship. This authoritarian move won’t change our course. Telegram stands for freedom and privacy, no matter the pressure.

@hamy0n Nothing is ever sent to Google or any other third party. Translations are performed with 100% privacy via Telegram’s own confidential compute https://t.co/jDBwQNtVRy

@HistoryInPik Sad — it seems more countries are following in Iran’s footsteps, while it should be the opposite.

People who call me an “oligarch” clearly don’t know what the term means. If I were close to any government (instead of opposing their constant attacks on freedom), I’d be 10x more successful by now. Everything I’ve achieved was despite governments, not thanks…

@bitcoinzulu I’ll take that.

Telegram for Android got its biggest redesign in 10 years. A few details to iron out, but it’s mostly complete — and already available to everyone.

🔥Telegram for Android got its biggest redesign in 10 years. A few details to iron out, but it’s mostly complete — and already available to everyone.

@hiMolaHola We shipped the iOS redesign last month.

@CdeBurner Liquid Glass is switched off on Android by default, but our users can enable it in Settings if they wish.

@gegegefest @elonmusk @evanspiegel Nice theory, but doesn’t add up. The same people (like the Spanish prime minister and his pet media outlets) call Elon a “techno-oligarch”, too. It’s just a label they use to manipulate people that has nothing to do with…

@toniniebla33 We’re thinking about it.

@paoloardoino Fanaticism rebrands itself every few generations in Europe: catholic inquisition -> fascist squads -> today’s speech commissars. The thread is always anti-reason and anti-freedom. Common sense is the ultimate heresy there.

В качестве аргумента за блокировку Telegram и принудительный перевод россиян в другое приложение иногда ссылаются на пример Китая и его мессенджера WeChat. Но это сравнение ошибочно.

WeChat не назначали «национальным мессенджером» и не навязывали людям.…

Russia’s hope that it can create tech “national champions” by banning all their competitors is delusional. Every real national super app was forged in fierce private competition (WeChat, KakaoTalk, LINE). Competition and innovation are two sides of the same…

@alexanderrX_ Not really. WeChat launched in 2011 and competed not only with dozens of domestic Chinese apps, but also with international ones like WhatsApp (blocked in China only in 2017 — by which point WeChat had already secured dominant market share in…