Christian Carlos. Peninsula 360 Press [P360P].
Telegram Messenger - a private messaging service - takes a step forward and is closing "channels", public chat groups with a right-wing extremist faction where neo-nazism and belief in QAnon are encouraged. This mainly prevents the organisation of groups in the US against Joe Biden's presidential transition.
In addition, it was recently announced that WhatsApp Messenger - Facebook's competition with Telegram - added new terms and conditions where user information is compromised. This has forced many users to download Telegram Messenger as an alternative to WhatsApp for those who cannot use a more robust instant messaging protocol such as Apple's iMessage.
In the last few days, it was reported that Telegram Messenger had suddenly added 25 million new users.
This action is released after the social network Twitter to suspend 70,000 accounts permanently on Monday night for fear of dispersion or incitement to violence caused by the beliefs of conspiracy theories such as QAnon.
Since last week, managers of the different social networks have responded against violence, with the exception of Parler -a social network similar to Twitter with no security filters- which was forced to close down due to its inefficient work in filtering hate messages.
Telegram, then, joins mass media platforms such as Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram to avoid future acts of violence such as those experienced last Wednesday, January 6when the outgoing president of the United States Donald Trump, addressed a message who gathered crowds to storm the Capitol.
It should be noted that most social networks have turned their backs on the current US president, the last one to suspend his official account was Snapchat.
In recent days, the United States has faced an intense debate in the run-up to the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, and there are fears that social networks will serve as a breeding ground for hate groups that promote discrimination and racism and thus increase the likelihood of armed and violent protest in the run-up to the January 20 transition of power.
