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Tech CEO Elon Musk has urged his almost 42 million Twitter followers to use secure messaging app Signal instead of Facebook products. In a series of tweets, Musk shared a meme referencing Facebook's role in the spread of misinformation leading to the attack on Congress this week and suggested people should use the Signal app.

Tech CEO Elon Musk has urged his almost 42 million Twitter followers to use secure messaging app Signal instead of Facebook products. In a series of tweets, Musk shared a meme referencing Facebook's role in the spread of misinformation leading to the attack on Congress this week and suggested people should use the Signal app.

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Telegram still has stuff backed up somewhere so you can get your messages from any device you sign into.

But it's also saved on your phone and at it's core is a messaging app. So to take telegram down would be like taking all text messaging down.

It's also open source. So if anyone trys to take it down someone else can take all the code and post it under a different name.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

Is telegram suspect because it wants a phone number? Or is that just not a big deal for some reason?

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Phone numbers are easy to fake. Just look at you spam calls.

So if privacy is extremely important you can use a throw away number.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

So when I download the telegram app it doesn't automatically get my number? I can put in a burner? Again sorry for the lack of understanding.