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Links have always been an important part of Twitter’s ecosystem. But lately, links on X are sending people to different sites than what they’re clicking. A verified account on X recently posted a link to a legitimate Forbes article that took users to a Telegram account promoting a crypto scam.

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Pavel Durov with a microphone on a stage
Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov.
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Welcome back to Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time! Yesterday’s lineup was an extremely close race and Read It Later fans put up an admirable fight but with 52 percent of the vote, Twitter goes to the next round. Today, we have a contest between apps for people who like to…

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Three view of a bronze silk dress from the 1880s from different angles
Sara Rivers Cofield found a hidden pocket in this dress from the 1880s, containing what was once thought to be an unsolvable code.
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A close up of a man's hands handcuffed behind his back.
Kalana Limkin (not pictured) was arrested Friday in Hawaii for possession of child pornography as part of an FBI investigation into an online satanic cult using social media platforms Discord and Telegram to recruit victims.
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Telegram restricted access to Hamas channels for Android users, as reported by CNBC Wednesday, less than two weeks after CEO Pavel Du

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A Palestinian man takes a selfie in front of a burning Israeli military vehicle after it was hit by Palestinian gunmen who infiltrated areas of southern Israel, at the Israeli side of Israel-Gaza border.
A Palestinian man takes a selfie in front of a burning Israeli military vehicle.
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  • A viral Russian social media post appears to mock a little girl killed in Ukraine on Saturday. 
  • A picture of a memorial to 6-year-old Sophia attracted thousands of 'laughing' emojis in a Russian post. 
  • The UN has condemned the missile strike on Chernihiv, which saw 144 casualties. 
A memorial for Chernihiv six-year-old Sophia, who was killed in Ukraine in a Russian missile strike on Saturday.
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VKontakte (VK), Russia’s homegrown Facebook clone and its biggest social network, saw a whopping 30-fold increase in censorship requests from government officials during the eight-month period following the Russian military’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, according to a new report.