Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office warned that the app
is being used to target politicians, scientists and doctors for their role in
tackling the coronavirus pandemic.
“The coronavirus pandemic in particular has contributed to
people becoming radicalized on Telegram, threatening others and even publishing
calls to murder,” the agency's chief, Holger Muench, said in a statement.
He said the task force would seek Telegram's cooperation but
also take measures if it doesn't.
The German government has tried for years, with little
success, to get Telegram to abide by the country's rules on taking down illegal
content.
The company behind the app, which claims to have hundreds of
millions of users worldwide, is based in the United Arab Emirates.
Last month, German police carried out raids in Saxony after
media reports that a group of people on Telegram had discussed plans to kill
the state's governor, Michael Kretschmer, and other members of the state
government. The group's members shared a rejection of vaccinations, the state
and the government's coronavirus policies. -AP
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