The result was a mass migration that, if it lasts, could weaken the power of Facebook and other big tech companies. In the four hours after Parler went offline on Monday, one Proud Boys group on Telegram gained over 4,000 new followers. For both Signal and Telegram, new installations came from users in Indonesia, Mexico, Brazil and dozens of other countries, data from Apptopia shows. On Sunday, the Twitter account of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico talked about his new group on Telegram. “They hear those key things — data sharing, Facebook, privacy,” Agrawal said, “and that’s enough for them to say, I got to get off this.”c.2021 The New York Times Company

Source: bd News24 January 14, 2021 04:41 UTC