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2 July 2020CopyrightRory O'Neill

Telegram: inside the pirate’s cove

Last September, WIPR reported on an  Italian police investigation into groups on the instant messaging services WhatsApp and Telegram, via which up to 500,000 people were accessing copies of Sardinian newspaper  L’Unione Sarda without paying.

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