No. The article is just wrong. Telegram isn't a weapon. Sharing pictures and videos is ... it's nothing like a gun or missile ... It potentially educates people, certainly doesn't hurt a soul.

PR battles exist, but it's metaphor. That's the point. Don't confuse killing with talking, please. Jesus.

And if it weren't Telegram, it would be Signal. Or Mastodon. Or whatever.

A terrifying weapon against who? The ones who deny the horrors of this war, the ones that cry free Israel without any regards to what is truly happening because social media sanitizes everything in favour of Israel?

We need more of those unfiltered channels!

TerRiFyInG.

It seems to me that what's terrifying is the state censorship and withholding of information that made everyone have to turn to installing phone apps for their only news.

In this case, I'd say the censorship worked in favor of Hamas, and while "poorly moderated" platforms did give them the opportunity to spread their "propaganda", Hamas used it to show everyone their true face. The result of the propaganda was people who were previously sympathetic to the Palestinian's cause we're now calling for Gaza to be turned into a parking lot.

I also find it rather rich that the article is complaining about misinformation when most of the press printed the lie about the hospital attack as if it was a fact.

"Terrifying". What the fuck.

You know what's terrifying? A bomb hitting your apartment building and killing your whole family and all your neighbors and trapping you under rubble as you slowly die of thirst. Smelling the stink of burning and rotten human flesh all around you. Knowing it's only going to get worse and you can't say goodbye or even beg for mercy.