Telegram has had a solid 11-year run, notching up nearly a billion users. Its founder and CEO, Pavel Durov, has become nothing short of a tech icon in certain circles—a Russian-born Mark Zuckerberg, if you will.
While Telegram has grown incredibly over the years, the elusive platform has also earned a bad reputation with governments for its lax content-moderation efforts and its hand in supposedly fueling terrorism, disinformation, and propaganda.
