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And yes I never believed the story of "Telegram as a rebel against FSB". It's quite likely that Telegram from the very beginning was covertly cooperating with *some* special service on targeted delivery of payloads to specific users. The problem might be that there's not one "service" in Russia but at least three of them so the conflict might have arisen on the ground that Telegram denied to cooperate with all of them even on low-value targets like people reposting ПТН ПНХ etc.