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Telegram Is Banned in India, Deleted from App Stores, Suffered a Global Outage The Indian government ordered a temporary ban on Telegram due to mass leaks of NEET-UG exam questions. However, a local telecom‘s attempt to restrict access led to interceptions far beyond the country. Editors at @tginfo explain how local censorship turned into a global outage. What Happened in India The formal reason for the ban was leaked questions for the national medical exam in Telegram channels. Currently, the official Telegram client has been removed from the Indian App Store and Google Play storefronts. Pavel Durov points out that this move punishes 150 million users in India, while the leaks simply migrated to a different app, and that Telegram cooperated with regulators by deleting “hundreds of channels sharing leaked exam materials and related scams in India”. The CEO also adds that the messenger team has “been making the ‘edited’ label more visible to prevent backdating scams”, although it is not clear whether this change hasn't shipped yet or is some local change that our editors couldn‘t confirm independently. The “edited” indicator changes are said to be done to fight backdating scams. For context, India is one of the biggest Telegram markets. The Indian government tried to pressure Telegram before: in 2022, a court demanded the disclosure of pirate channel owners‘ personal data. At that time, Telegram only complied on paper, stating that it didn‘t store the requested data on its servers. It is clear that this time the government is trying to act with more force. From a Local Ban to a Global Outage Trying to restrict Telegram inside the country, an Indian telecom company used a BGP routing hijacking trick. • The Internet is made up of many interconnected networks that tell each other the data paths using the BGP protocol. • An Indian telecom company announced to the whole world that it owns Telegram's IP addresses, forcing part of the global traffic to be sent through the false route, which blocks access to the messenger. • Since many service providers around the world still don‘t verify the authenticity of the routes they receive, the false routes spread around the globe. As a result, connectivity issues could be observed even outside India, including regions like the UAE. Similar incidents happened before: for example, in 2023, the Iraqi government used a similar trick to ban Telegram. Industry experts point out that the Indian telecom even got into a brief network war with Telegram, in which one company tried to overwrite the opponent‘s routing directions. Pavel Durov announced that Reliance stopped malicious routing four hours after his post. Erroneous Accusations Against Meta Trying to Blame for All Their Problems Pavel Durov called the service provider‘s actions intentional sabotage and assumed that it might be part of the competitive war that WhatsApp is leading against Telegram, based on a claim that Reliance is partially owned by Meta (parent company of WhatsApp and Facebook). Despite this, community and media research shows that Pavel Durov confused two companies. The network system that was hijacking the traffic is owned by Reliance Communications, an old telecom asset midway through bankruptcy, while Meta invested in a completely unrelated company — Jio Platforms (which also owns Reliance Jio, a large Indian service provider). The theory about WhatsApp‘s corporate conspiracy couldn‘t be backed by any technical data. It is likely that the global traffic hijacking was caused by incompetence among the engineers at the Indian company responsible for configuring the hardware to block Telegram. It is not the first time that Pavel Durov has publicly accused WhatsApp of attacking Telegram, explaining unfavorable events with conspiracy theories. #India #censorship #outages

Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire on Friday🔥 this was following the record-breaking stock market debut of his company SpaceX. With a current estimated net worth of about $1.11tn (E830 bn), according to Bloomberg, Musk sits well above wealthy billionaires topping rich lists, including Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and boss of French luxury goods group LVMH, Bernard Arnault. But he hasn't always been the world's richest man. In January 2020, he was only the 35th richest person in the world, with a fortune of around $28bn. #thesammymovenews

YouTube Premium subscribers are facing another price increase in the U.S. - Individual plans are increasing from $13.99 to $15.99 per month. - Family plans are rising from $22.99 to $26.99 per month. This is a increase of about 14% for Individual plans and 17% for Family plans. There have also been claims that YouTube added a feature that automatically speeds up playback during less important moments to save viewers time. #thesammymovenews

WhatsApp Plus costs $2.99/month(N5,000) in the US, and adds exclusive features such as the following: - Send premium stickers - Change your app’s theme - Choose a custom app icon - Pin extra chats - Get premium ringtones - Upgrade your chat lists In other words, WhatsApp Plus doesn’t change anything about the core WhatsApp experience. And anyone who is not interested in subscribing shouldn’t see noticeable changes in what they currently get from WhatsApp. However, if you’re a heavy WhatsApp user and want access to additional features and customization tools, that’s what WhatsApp Plus is for. #whatsapp

Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions, with more to come, including AI plans #thesammymovemews

Telcos recover over N2trn from borrowing crackdown as call restrictions persist you guys have been draining these telcos🤔

DAWN and GRASS are about to do an airdrop are you positioned?

whatsapp will now be showing Ads on your status #thesammymovenews

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BREAKING NEWS: The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has increased the fee for issuance and replacement of ATM debit/ credit cards by 50 per cent to N1,500 from N1,000. #thesammymovemews

Twitter/X is shutting down Communities on May 6 due to “declining usage.” Users are instead being encouraged to share XChat links, which have a limit of 350 members per chat. #thesammymovenews

10 CBN changes related to your BVN Effective May 1, 2026, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is implementing stringent BVN-related security changes to reduce fraud, including limiting mobile apps to one device, capping new device transactions at for 24 hours, and restricting phone number changes to once in a lifetime.    Here are the key changes and reforms introduced by the CBN: 10 New BVN/Security Rules (Effective May 1, 2026) Device Binding: Mobile banking apps will be restricted to one registered device. Automatic Logout: Logging into a new device automatically logs out the previous one. Mandatory Revalidation: All BVN/NIN details must be electronically revalidated. Device Switching Verification: Switching devices requires additional authentication. 24-Hour Watchlist: Suspicious BVNs will be placed on a 24-hour monitoring list. Account Freezing: Banks can temporarily freeze accounts linked to flagged BVNs. Single Phone Number Change: Customers can only change their BVN-linked phone number once. Strict Age Limit: BVN enrolment is restricted to individuals aged 18 and above. Transaction Cap: Transactions on new devices are limited to in the first 24 hours. SIM-Swap Fraud Focus: Rules aim to stop unauthorized access via SIM-swapping. 

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JUST IN: MTN has suspended airtime and data loans over new FCCPC lending rules #thesammymovemews

YouTube Premium raising prices for first time since 2023 channel: @thesammymove #thesammymovenews YouTube Premium offers ad-free viewing, background listening, offline video downloads and full access to YouTube Music Premium. Under the new pricing, YouTube Premium will cost $15.99 per month, up $2 from $13.99. YouTube Music Premium will rise to $11.99, up $1 from $10.99, while the YouTube Premium Lite plan will increase to $8.99 per month from $7.99. The family plan, which allows up to six people in the same household to share access, will increase to $26.99 per month, up from $22.99. Student plans will also rise to $8.99 per month, an increase from $7.99.

WhatsApp is widely rolling out the Liquid Glass interface #whatsapp