Resonance: FSB against Telegram

Social networks jokingly suggested what else, besides terrorist attacks, Telegram could be blamed for.

On June 26, the FSB stated that terrorists and “their foreign curators” used Telegram in preparing the terrorist attack in the St. Petersburg metro on April 3, 2017. According to representatives of the department, the messenger “provided them with the opportunity to create secret chats with a high level of encryption of the transmitted information.”

The FSB statement immediately became one of the main topics of the day on social networks.

Twitter noted that, by analogy with Telegram, the FSB could have told about other things that terrorists used. For example, cars, apartments and air.

Users began blaming the messenger for other problems, such as the lack of hot water and the Russian national football team's departure from the Confederations Cup.

Commentators also jokingly recalled various historical events in which Telegram could have been involved.

Earlier, the head of Roskomnadzor, Alexander Zharov, threatened Durov with blocking Telegram if he refused to register the messenger in the register of information distributors. on federal channels After this, several stories appeared about terrorists being its active users.

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