Viva Frei: Telegram CEO & Trump Assassin Are Being Weaponized Against Encrypted Apps – Ask Dr. Drew

Telegram is not a fully safe or anonymous communications app, but its easytouse privacy features have attracted whistleblowers and dissidents from around the world along with criminals, traffickers, and terrorists. If a platform is responsible for moderating content posted by its users, did Telegram not do enough... and did Facebook go too far? ••「 LINKS & SOURCES」•• After the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov in France, many freedom fighters who use the app are now especially concerned about Telegram's lack of opensource security or default endtoend encryption, and how the company might respond when its billionaire leader is threatened by powerful governments who demand access to its keys. Attorney Viva Frei askscould Telegram be used as a cudgel in the war against other encrypted apps? And why do officials keep mentioning that Thomas Crooks, the attempted Trump assassin, was using unnamed encrypted apps from Belgium, Germany, New Zealand?

David Freiheit AKA Viva Frei is an attorney and host of "Viva Frei" on Rumble and Locals. He also cohosts the legal podcast "Viva and Barnes Live" at Follow Viva Frei at and

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