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Brussels is reportedly considering whether to subject the Russian-made platform to its ‘disinformation’ laws
EU officials are considering listing Telegram as a “very large online platform,” a move that would open the privacy-focused messaging app up to stringent censorship rules, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.
Bloomberg’s report cited anonymous sources who claimed that Brussels has reached out to Telegram in a bid to establish how many people regularly use the platform. Telegram claims that it has around 41 million monthly active users, a figure that places it below the EU’s 45-million-user threshold for strict regulation under its Digital Services Act (DSA).
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