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Foreign Policy: Are Telegram and Signal havens for right-wing extremists?

By Foreign Policy.

Published March 15, 2021. Updated March 15 at 5:01 am

A Capitol Police officer stands with members of the National Guard behind a crowd control fence surrounding Capitol Hill a day after a pro-Trump mob broke into the US Capitol on Jan. 7, 2021, in Washington, DC.

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Since the violent storming of Capitol Hill and subsequent ban of former U.S. President Donald Trump from Facebook and Twitter, the removal of Parler from Amazon’s servers, and the de-platforming of incendiary right-wing content, messaging services Telegram and Signal have seen a deluge of new users. In January alone, Telegram reported 90 million new accounts.