Why Islamic State Loves Telegram

Islamic State militants have returned in explosive numbers to using a heavily encrypted phone messaging and social networking application whose Russian developer came under widespread political and law-enforcement pressure after November's Paris attacks to hinder jihadi use of his hard-to-crack technology. Telegram's Pavel Durov consistently refused to block IS and other jihadi groups from using his platform before the Paris attacks but reluctantly blocked 78 IS-related accounts...

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