Vice News: How Telegram Became White Nationalists' Go-To Messaging Platform

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"VICE News analyzed 150 public-facing far-right Telegram channels and found that more than two-thirds were created in the first eight months of 2019. And not only do white nationalists have a much more robust presence on Telegram than they did two years ago, but their channels have grown more sophisticated, violent and terroristic over time. 'They’re building this infrastructure, and working on carving out their own little network for people who subscribe to far-right ideologies,' said Joshua Fisher-Birch, a research analyst at the Counter Extremism Project."

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October 7, 2019
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