Telegram responds to India's ban: One-week ban inadvertently affected 150 million users.

CoinFeed reported on June 16 that Telegram founder Pavel Durov posted on his channel that the Indian Ministry of Information Technology has imposed a one-week ban on Telegram due to some users distributing leaked exam questions. Telegram believes this move affected approximately 150 million ordinary users in India but failed to truly punish those who leaked the questions or those with inside information. Telegram stated that the ban did not solve the problem; the content simply moved to other application platforms. The company emphasized that although the source of the leak was not Telegram, it has actively cooperated with the cleanup efforts over the past few weeks, removing hundreds of channels that distributed leaked exam questions and related scams. Furthermore, Telegram stated that it has recently increased the visibility of "edited" tags to prevent retroactive fraud scams involving altering posting times.