About 70 percent of Ukraine’s population uses Telegram as their main source of news, but the government is worried that the app is being used as a method of disinformation and spying by Russia. They are trying to pivot to apps like Signal instead, but it is difficult to break the habit of such a majority of the country.
The founder is a French citizen whose social media platform was taken over by the Russian state.
Who has visited the country many times after his so called exodus.