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Every day, Telegram's moderators and AI tools remove millions of obviously harmful content from our public platform. However, tackling war-related coverage is seldom obvious.

Earlier this week, Hamas used Telegram to warn civilians in Ashkelon to leave the area ahead of their missile strikes. Would shutting down their channel help save lives — or would it endanger more lives?

It’s always tempting to act on emotional impulses. But such complex situations require thorough consideration that should also take into account the differences between social platforms.

Unlike other apps that algorithmically promote shocking content to unsuspecting people, on Telegram, users receive only the content to which they specifically subscribed. As such, it's unlikely that Telegram channels can be used to significantly amplify propaganda. Instead, they serve as a unique source of first-hand information for researchers, journalists, and fact-checkers.

While it would be easy for us to destroy this source of information, doing so risks exacerbating an already dire situation.

Todos los días, los moderadores y las herramientas de inteligencia artificial de Telegram eliminan millones de contenido obviamente dañino de nuestra plataforma pública. Sin embargo, abordar la cobertura relacionada con la guerra rara vez resulta obvio.

A principios de esta semana, Hamas utilizó Telegram para advertir a los civiles en Ashkelon que abandonaran el área antes de sus ataques con misiles. ¿Cerrar su canal ayudaría a salvar vidas o pondría en peligro más vidas?

Siempre es tentador actuar según impulsos emocionales. Pero situaciones tan complejas requieren una consideración minuciosa que también debería tener en cuenta las diferencias entre las plataformas sociales.

A diferencia de otras aplicaciones que promueven algorítmicamente contenido impactante a personas desprevenidas, en Telegram, los usuarios reciben solo el contenido al que se suscribieron específicamente. Como tal, es poco probable que los canales de Telegram puedan usarse para amplificar significativamente la propaganda. Más bien, sirven como una fuente única de información de primera mano para investigadores, periodistas y verificadores de datos.

Si bien sería fácil para nosotros destruir esta fuente de información, hacerlo corre el riesgo de exacerbar una situación que ya es terrible.

As our civilization becomes more efficient at creating entertainment, at some point it may become too entertained to remain efficient.

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🔤🔠🔤🔤❗️Update Telegram to the latest version to see how replies and link previews should work in 2023. Since we invented these formats several years ago, the industry must have been waiting for us to show them the next step. The wait is over! 👿

https://telegram.org/blog/reply-revolution

Bonus: you can now rewind / fast forward Stories by holding and sliding sideways (I wonder why other apps that have had stories for years hadn’t done this before 🤌 — there must be some dark secret we’ll uncover soon 🔮).

Bonus Bonus: our beloved Premium users (almost 3.5 million of them already) get to choose the color of their name and quotes in chats. Go orange this Halloween! ❤️

🚀 TON set the record for the fastest blockchain in the world!

😎We were right to choose TON as the blockchain platform for Telegram. From a technological standpoint, competitors are years behind in scalability. Bitcoin is likely to stay, but other general-purpose blockchains look obsolete 👎

https://coincodex.com/article/33968/toncoin-ton-blockchain-breaks-record-for-worlds-fastest-network-beating-solana-polygon-visa-and-mastercard/

💳TPS (Transactions Per Second) in blockchain networks. Details —
https://blog.ton.org/100000-transactions-per-second-ton-sets-the-world-record-on-its-first-performance-test

Now every channel on Telegram can host FAIR giveaways.

What’s a giveaway? ❓

It’s when someone promises to give out prizes to random followers 😏😏😏

Many giveaways on social media were scams. There was no way to prove the winner was chosen fairly 😐

Until now. Telegram is the first social media platform to natively support giveaways with guaranteed random selection + prepaid prize funds 🤑

Check out the demos here: https://telegram.org/blog/giveaways