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What is Telegram and why has its founder Pavel Durov been arrested?

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Summary
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56% Informative

Telegram is a messaging app competing with services including WhatsApp , Signal and iMessage .

It offers more social networking features than most of its peers.

Group chats are in effect unlimited in size, as are Telegram ’s broadcast “channels” Those channels also let followers leave comments under posts and have back and forth conversations with each other.

VR Score

48

Informative language

42

Neutral language

44

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

55

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

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