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The messaging and social media app Telegram has a major doxing problem. NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with writer Peter Guest, who reported on the global issue in Wired.

With the pandemic putting an end to lots of human activities that bring us joy, plenty of people have contracted a case of the blues, but at the…

Telegram has become a prime tool used by the far right to communicate. But the arrest of Telegram founder Pavel Durov is prompting paranoia over whether it will remain secure and accessible.

After 150 years, the era of the telegram came to a quiet end last week. Romanticized in film and song, the hand-delivered paper messages were made useless by telephones and e-mail.

The app is Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s preferred means of communication.

France's move to arrest Telegram founder Pavel Durov -- after the app has been on the radar of governments for years -- is raising questions about whether the U.S. might follow suit.

The Russian-born tech billionaire was arrested by French authorities on Saturday. Prosecutors in Paris had been questioning him in connection with an investigation focused on drug trafficking

Authorities in Paris said on Monday that Durov is being held on questions stemming from an investigation into criminal activity on the app, including the spread of child pornography and facilitating the selling of illegal drugs.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Taner Akcam, a Turkish historian at Clark University, who uncovered an original telegram as evidence for the Armenian genocide.