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by pyrryh 1472 days ago
That's not because of its policies, it's just that Telegram is very popular in Eastern Europe/post-USSR land, network effects and such.
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Twitter and Youtube are a censorship minefield as it comes to war footage. Russian trolls have been known to mass-report pro-Ukrainian accounts for posting "NSFL" material (and much of the interesting material from the front is NSFL). If you are famous and know the right people in the West, you can get unbanned through your connections, but this is a lot harder for the local sources.