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Autism disinformation on Telegram soars in Latin America and Caribbean.
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this post was submitted on 05 Apr 2025
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Honestly, you could probably leave it at that, because Telegram seems filled with disinformation no matter where you are.
This seriously sucks, though. It's hard enough having people not understand autism, but to have this weaponized disinformation sucks worse.
They could have also left the media out. I'm sure misinformation is spread through all messenger apps.
Everybody agrees that disinformation is present in the relatively unregulated parts of the Internet and in crowds, but it would be hard to make people agree what is disinformation, outside of places like this with clear alignment.
Note how much fewer people agree that mass media are full of disinformation, that would be because mass media are man-made tools which give each their own kind of disinformation, a personalized poison. Same with social media.
My point was that where I live a significant part of population, including doctors, would consider the scientific idea of autism disinformation, and their own caveman bullshit not. This is similar to many other subjects and layers of existence.
So let's please think for a moment before just blaming Telegram, the parts to hate about it are its clunky UI, lack of proper E2EE encryption, misguiding advertising, need for a phone number and a protocol which seems an untrackable mess (compared to better ones, not to what I can devise, of course), judging by alternative usable clients being too few.
Clunky UI? TG has been my favourite Android app for over a decade, it has amazing UI, not sure what you're talking about...
On desktops. All Android UIs are clunky.
I honestly think this is fine, hence why I use Signal. But the rest are not, hence why I use Signal.