Telegram representative says that Ukrainian bots were temporarily blocked due to "false positive"
Kyiv • UNN
Telegram temporarily disabled official Ukrainian government bots due to a "false positive", but later restored them without providing further details.
A Telegram representative said that the official bots of the SSU, the DIU and the Ministry of Digital Transformation were blocked due to "false positive," Reuters reports, UNN writes.
Details
"A Telegram spokesperson said bots were "temporarily disabled due to a false positive but have since been reinstated", without giving further details," the publication writes.
Addendum
Last week, Telegram founder Pavel Durov said that his company had received an official request from Apple for some changes to the "general news and propaganda" channels available to Ukrainian users. At the time, he added that the company "will continue to block accounts and bots that collect coordinates for strikes or publish direct personal information with calls for violence.
