Telegram, the messaging app ISIS used, shrouded in secrecy
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AN encrypted communications app called Telegram has been in the news a lot this week, amid fears that the Islamic State has adopted it as its preferred platform for messaging.
On Nov 18, Telegram reportedly banned 78 ISIS-related channels, "disturbed" to learn how popular the app had become among extremists. Those extremists had used the app both to spread propaganda, according to an October report, and to crowdfund money for guns and rockets, according to media and technology website Vocativ.
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