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The Verge
12 hours ago
- Business
- The Verge
announced yesterday
Signal says it won't add AI or ads like WhatsApp. WhatsApp that it will now show ads from businesses through its Stories-like feature, months after adding an unnecessary floating AI button to the main chat interface. In response, Signal president Meredith Whittaker has promised 'no AI clutter, no surveillance ads — whatever the rest of the industry does' for the independent nonprofit messaging app.
CNA
18-05-2025
- Politics
- CNA
Telegram founder says he rejects request to 'silence' conservative voices in Romania
MOSCOW : The founder of the Telegram messaging app, Pavel Durov, said on Sunday he had refused a request by a Western country, which he did not name, to "silence" conservative voices in Romania, which was holding a presidential election run-off. "A Western European government... approached Telegram, asking us to silence conservative voices in Romania ahead of today's presidential elections. I flatly refused. Telegram will not restrict the freedoms of Romanian users or block their political channels," Pavel Durov wrote on Telegram, accompanying his post with an emoji of baguette which might hint at France. Durov was arrested at an airport near Paris last August and subsequently placed under formal investigation, with a ban on leaving France. In March he returned to Dubai.
