Durov also founded VKontakte Russia’s largest social network, and originally launched Telegram “to build a means of communication that can’t be accessed by the Russian security agencies.”ĭue to the secretive nature of messages on Telegram, it has been widely criticized by governments around the world for becoming the messaging “ app of choice” for terrorists.
Most rival messaging services now support end-to-end encryption, but that wasn’t the case when Telegram debuted back in 2013. Telegram has risen in popularity thanks to its focus on advanced security features and the ability to hold secret conversations with end-to-end encryption. Once we have protections in place we expect the apps to be back on the App Store.- Pavel Durov February 1, 2018 We were alerted by Apple that inappropriate content was made available to our users and both apps were taken off the App Store.
