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As of today, the platform developed by Pavel Durov was one of the most downloaded mobile apps in 2022.
According to a sentence, Telegram must pay a fine of more than 4 million Mexican pesos in Brazil.
Once again, Telegram is being singled out in Brazil, a country where it will now have to pay a fine of 1.2 million reais, according to what the Federal Supreme Court of that nation ruled.
According to data from the report Social Networks 2021 developed by We Are Social and published in October of last year, Telegram is one of the platforms with the most monthly active users worldwide..
For a few years now, we have seen how Telegram is becoming more and more consolidated as an instant messaging platform or social network, without forgetting that competition with WhatsApp is extremely complicated.
However, this does not seem to be a big problem for the platform, because, despite not being the most used social network, this does not mean that it is a forgotten platform, quite the opposite and it is constantly being updated in order to to reach new audiences.
The last few years have definitely been of great importance for Telegram; Let us remember that, after the great blackout in Meta that affected Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, the social network developed by the brothers Nikolai and Pável Dúrov managed to add around 70 million new users who now have access to all the news that presents in each update.
On the other hand, in 2022, in one of its most important reports, the instant messaging social network announced that it already has more than 700 million users in its portfolioFigures far from WhatsApp, yes, but they show that its popularity is growing.
Telegram, again, with problems in Brazil; will pay a fine for this reason
Already for a while, in Brazil there had been requests to block Telegram and now, in the South American country, it is marking a new setback on the platform, which will have to pay a fine of 1.2 million reais, that is, just over 4 million 400 thousand Mexican pesos.
The reason? According to what has been disclosed, the Federal Supreme Court of Brazil fined the platform for failing to comply with a court order, which requested the suspension of the accounts of the former president’s followers. Jair Bolsonaro.
And it is that, as mentioned by said body, it was through Telegram that at least five accounts were sharing various content related to hate speech and the promotion of institutional rupture.
Given this, the social network did not block or cancel one of the referred accounts, which belongs to congressman-elect Nikolas Ferreira, who was the most voted in Brazil during the 2022 elections, reaching 1.47 million votes.
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