Apple wants Telegram to remove pro-democracy posts related to the Belarus election. But it doesn't want people to know.

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There's a bit of a storm brewing between Apple and instant messaging app Telegram with the former telling the latter that it needs to remove some posts because they have personal information in them – information that could identify people said to have helped rig an election in Belarus. And it won't let Telegram tell anyone why the posts have been removed, either.


Telegram CEO Pavel Durov has been writing about the farce.

"Previously, when removing posts at Apple's request, Telegram replaced those posts with a notice that cited the exact rule limiting such content for iOS users. However, Apple reached out to us a while ago and said our app is not allowed to show users such notices because they were "irrelevant". "

Apple wants Telegram to remove pro-democracy posts related to the Belarus election. But it doesn't want people to know.

Apple has told Telegram that it needs to remove some messages because they have personally identifiable information. But it won't let the messaging app explain why they're being deleted.

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