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Telegram CEO Durov PURGES Snowden impersonator after NSA whistleblower's Twitter tirade
[RT] Upset at Telegram over the "insane garbage" someone impersonating him was posting, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden complained on Twitter, only to be answered by CEO Pavel Durov, who cleared the problem up within minutes.Telegram "knows" he doesn’t have an account, Snowden tweeted on Sunday, complaining about an impostor account named ’Official_EdwardSnowden’ sharing "a swastika" to 80,000 followers. "Great job, guys. Just super," he said. Snowden added that Telegram knew "ages ago" about the "scam-ring running this account," having refused to respond to media coverage about it. Durov, who is apparently not in the habit of using Twitter — his most recent post on the platform had been in January — responded to Snowden’s complaints on Monday, noting that the imposter channel "is about a week old and never had a ’verified’ mark." "It's unlikely the team was even aware about this channel. All you had to do was to let [Telegram] know about it. It is now marked as ’fake’ and removed from search results, just like other similar channels," he tweeted at Snowden. Related: Edward Snowden: 2021-05-24 How the plane was actually planted in Minsk and what will be the consequences for Lukashenko Edward Snowden: 2020-12-16 Edward Snowden Edward Snowden: 2020-12-03 Edward Snowden on hacking the election Posted by: Fred 2021-10-19 |
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