Telegram blocks Ukrainian chatbots, including intelligence: what is known about the situation

Telegram blocks Ukrainian chatbots, including intelligence: what is known about the situation

The Telegram platform has decided to block a number of official bots, including the Ukrainian intelligence chatbot, the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reported on its Telegram channel. This happened yesterday, April 28, and led to the blocking of the “Main Intelligence Bot.”

 

 

According to GUR representatives, such a step contradicts the statements of Telegram's management and violates their own rules.


Although the intelligence service warns of the creation of bots with similar names by the Russians, it urges people to refrain from sending personal data to such channels.





The Telegram platform has decided to block a number of official bots, including the Ukrainian intelligence chatbot, the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reported on its Telegram channel. This happened yesterday, April 28, and led to the blocking of the “Main Intelligence Bot.”

 

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According to GUR representatives, such a step contradicts the statements of Telegram's management and violates their own rules.


Although the intelligence service warns of the creation of bots with similar names by the Russians, it urges people to refrain from sending personal data to such channels.