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The app has helped fuel democracy movements in Iran and Belarus but now faces scrutiny as extremists and conspiracy theorists flock to it amid crackdowns by Facebook and Twitter on disinformation.

Facebook and Twitter have kicked out the online horribles. Are they going where we can’t find them?

The encrypted messaging services have become the world’s hottest apps over the last week, driven by growing anxiety over the power of the biggest tech companies and privacy concerns.

The social network said it would review the city’s punitive new national security law, a rare public questioning of Chinese policy by a large American tech company.

Cho Joo-bin was accused of blackmailing dozens of young women, including at least 16 minors, into making sexually explicit video clips of themselves.

When Facebook announced plans for a similar effort this year, the regulatory pushback was fierce. But Telegram appears undeterred.

Daniel Victor, a reporter in Hong Kong, on why protesters there chose not to go after the Instagram moments while marching.