The explanation about the privacy abuser Whatsapp contract, which has never been on the agenda, and the response to the allegations circulating on social media, came from the Telegram channel by Telegram's CEO Pavel DUROV.
Here is that explanation:
“I heard Facebook has a department dedicated to understanding why Telegram is so popular. Imagine having dozens of employees working full time!
I'm happy to give Facebook tens of millions of dollars and give away our secret for free. Our secret: Respect your users.
Millions of people are outraged by the change in WhatsApp Terms, which will allow all users' private data to be sent to Facebook's advertising engines. It's not surprising that users' flights from WhatsApp to Telegram, which have been going on for several years, are accelerating.
Telegram, which has about 500 million users with the number of users increasing day by day, has become a big problem for Facebook. Unable to compete with Telegram in terms of quality and privacy, Facebook's WhatsApp seems to have blatantly switched to stealth marketing: Wikipedia editors have uncovered numerous paid bots programmed to add information in WhatsApp's favor recently to WhatsApp's Wikipedia page.
We've also spotted bots working to spread misinformation about Telegram on social media.
You can read the blog below:
Social Media Marketingn (SMM)✔️ SMM Panel
Here are the 3 urban legends they claim:
Myth 1. “Telegram's codes are not open source.”
In reality, all Telegram apps have been open source since 2013. Our encryption and API are fully documented and reviewed thousands of times by security experts. Moreover, Telegram is the only messaging app in the world with verifiable builds for both iOS and Android.
As for WhatsApp, they deliberately hide their code, which makes it impossible to verify their encryption and privacy.
Myth 2. “Telegram is in Russian.”
In fact, Telegram has no servers or offices in Russia and was blocked by the government in Russia from 2018 to 2020. While Telegram is still blocked in some authoritarian countries like Iran, WhatsApp and other "pseudo-safe" apps have never had a problem in those countries.
Myth 3. “Telegram conversations are not encrypted.”
Every chat on Telegram has been encrypted since launch. We have end-to-end secret chats as well as cloud chats that offer real-time secure and distributed cloud storage. WhatsApp, on the other hand, had no encryption for several years and then adopted an encryption protocol funded by the US Government. Even assuming WhatsApp encryption is solid, it can be breached via multiple backdoors and it's up to our backups.
Whatsapp spent nearly $10 billion on marketing in 2019 alone. (I think that includes paid bots on Wikipedia and other sites.)”
Unlike Whatsapp, Telegram spends no money on marketing, let alone billions of dollars.
We believe that people are smart enough to choose what is best for them… And judging by the half a billion people using Telegram, this belief is justified.
sources:
https://adsmember.com/buy-fake-telegram-members/
https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/8zjesq/why_telegram_source_code_is_so_hard_to_read/
