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Illustrative: The messaging app Telegram is displayed on a smartphone (AP Photo)
September 20, 2019, 11:57 pm
Suspected US neo-Nazis compiling names of Jews on Telegram app
List said to include both prominent and lesser known Jewish people who have criticized white supremacism, misogyny
By Cnaan Liphshiz
The IDF's new Farsi Twitter account, August 28, 2019 (screenshot)
August 28, 2019, 10:53 pm
IDF’s new Persian social media accounts gain thousands of followers in days
Army says new Farsi presence on Twitter, Instagram, Telegram will enable Iranians ‘to see for themselves that they are not the enemy; the oppressive Iranian regime is’
By AFP and TOI staff
Telegrass founder Amos Dov Silver speaks in an interview with the Kan public broadcaster aired on July 20, 2019, from where he was being held under arrest in Ukraine. (Screen capture: YouTube)
August 18, 2019, 6:50 am
Weed kingpin lands in Israel after failed Ukraine escape
Telegrass founder Amos Dov Silver extradited after attempt to flee goes up in smoke; will face charges related to founding and running marijuana marketplace
By TOI staff and AFP
Amos Silver with a cannabis plant. (Courtesy)
August 18, 2019, 4:55 am
Telegrass founder alleges police beat him after escape gambit
Lawyer for Amos Dov Silver, nabbed in Ukraine after brief stint on the lam, says he has appealed to US embassy, Israeli Foreign Ministry over alleged abuse
By AFP and TOI staff
Telegrass founder Amos Dov Silver speaks in an interview with the Kan public broadcaster aired on July 20, 2019, from where he was being held under arrest in Ukraine. (Screen capture: YouTube)
August 17, 2019, 12:52 pm
Telegrass founder nabbed in Ukraine after slipping police
SBU security service says cannabis kingpin Amos Dov Silver soon to be extradited to Israel; announces 3 of its employees detained for helping him escape
By AFP and TOI staff
Amos Dov Silver (Screen capture: YouTube)
August 16, 2019, 9:03 am
Founder of Telegrass pot marketplace escapes police in Ukraine
Amos Dov Silver was set to be extradited to Israel after the Ukrainian supreme court rejected his appeal on Thursday
By TOI staff
A screenshot of a Telegrass marijuana menu. (Screenshot)
April 18, 2019, 3:21 pm
Prosecutors charge 27 suspects in Telegram cannabis marketplace
Indictment alleges managers of marijuana distribution network were knowingly involved, and sometimes even encouraged sale of drugs to minors
By TOI staff
Iran's president Hassan Rouhani gives a speech in the city of Tabriz in the northwestern East-Azerbaijan province on April 25, 2018, (Atta Kenare/AFP)
May 5, 2018, 1:24 pm
Iran president criticizes blocking of Telegram messaging app
Rouhani says judiciary’s decision not backed by government, is ‘contrary to democracy’
By AFP
Iranians display their smartphones using the Telegram messenger application on December 1, 2015. (AFP Photo/Atta Kenare)
May 1, 2018, 3:40 am
Iran bans use of popular Telegram messaging app
Tehran has sought to crack down on foreign messenger apps since the wave of protests that hit dozens of Iranian cities at the start of the year
By AFP
Iranians display their smartphones using the Telegram messenger application on December 1, 2015. (AFP Photo/Atta Kenare)
April 26, 2018, 3:35 pm
Iran orders providers to stop hosting Telegram App
Social network used by protesters in January will slow markedly for some 40 million Iranian users after local companies forbidden from serving as nodes
By AP
In this picture released by his official website, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attends a meeting with a group of Qom residents in a mosque at his residence in Tehran, Iran, January 9, 2018. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)
April 18, 2018, 2:58 pm
Iran’s Khamenei will stop using Telegram
Supreme leader says he’s leaving app banned by regime during winter protests, urges Iranians to join domestic networks
By Agencies
This file photo taken in Moscow on April 6, 2018, shows a person posing while holding a smartphone with the Telegram messenger application on display. (AFP Photo/Alexander Nemenov)
April 13, 2018, 10:45 pm
Russian court rules to block Telegram messaging app
‘Privacy is not for sale,’ founder Pavel Durov says after application banned for its refusal to hand over encryption key
By victoria LOGUINOVA-YAKOVLEVA
University students attend a protest inside Tehran University while a smoke grenade is thrown by Iranian anti-riot police, Tehran, Iran, December 30, 2017. (AP Photo)
April 1, 2018, 7:56 am
Iran said set to shut down Telegram messaging
Authorities reportedly claim service played destructive role in anti-government protests in which 25 were killed
By AP and TOI staff
(L-R) Monika Bickert, Facebook's Head of Global Policy Management; Juniper Downs, YouTube 's Global Head of Public Policy and Government Relations; and Carlos Monje, Director, Twitter's North America Public Policy and Philanthropy, at a hearing of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee on Capitol Hill, January 17, 2018 in Washington, DC. (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)
January 17, 2018, 11:08 pm
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube pressed by US over terror content
Internet giants face grilling by Senate panel over efforts to prevent propaganda being spread on social media
By AFP
Iranian students protest at the University of Tehran during a demonstration driven by anger over economic problems, in the capital Tehran on December 30, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / STR)
January 2, 2018, 8:26 pm
US demands Iran stop blocking social media
Washington advises citizens of Islamic Republic to set up virtual private networks, or VPNs, to circumvent online censorship
By Agencies
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