Dozens of neo-Nazis are fleeing Telegram and moving to a relatively unknown secret chat app that has received funding from Twitter founder Jack Dorsey.

In a report from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue published on Friday morning, researchers found that in the wake of the arrest of Telegram founder Pavel Durov and charges against leaders of the so-called Terrorgram Collective, dozens of extremist groups have moved to the app SimpleX Chat in recent weeks over fears that Telegram’s privacy policies expose them to being arrested. The Terrorgram Collective is a neo-Nazi propaganda network that calls for acolytes to target government officials, attack power stations, and murder people of color.

Source: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/neo-nazis-head-to-encrypted-simplex-chat-app-bail-on-telegram/

  • foremanguy
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    3513 hours ago

    Please do not ruin the reputation of SimpleX, by saying it’s a terrorist messenger. Actually it’s one of the best but need a bit of development

    • @[email protected]
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      256 minutes ago

      Honestly this is kinda good press IMO. When the people who actively do have something to hide are using a given privacy tool, that tool probably works.

      • foremanguy
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        18 minutes ago

        Not really the point, these people were using Telegram after all… 🙃

      • foremanguy
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        12 hours ago

        As people would thought that it’s a Nazi and terrorist messenger

        • Avid Amoeba
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          11 hour ago

          Did they think that about Telegram? I thought it was quite popular despite that.

          • foremanguy
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            19 minutes ago

            Right but even when you have the reputation of terrorist messenger it’s not the best thing