But as the war unfolded in Europe, an intercepted telegram sent by the German Foreign Secretary, Arthur Zimmermann, to the Mexican government inflamed the U.S. public opinion and was one of the ...

The German police then established a working group to combat Telegram and opened two criminal cases against the platform. Telegram was initially fined 55 million euros and blocked in the country.

By July 2024, Telegram had more than 950 million users, Newsweek reported last September. At the time of that report, around ...