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In 2021, North Macedonian women protested this company over sexual harassment. Pressure from the “Axis of Resistance” reversed this company’s 2023 ban over Iraqi Sadrism (“Sadr-ism”). Delhi’s High Court demanded details on copyright violators (-5[1])from this BVI-based company, which gave German police access to its data centers. This company’s founders created the social network VK (-5[1])before they bought (10[1])Kittian (10[1])citizenship and one of them became Dubai’s richest billionaire. (-5[1])Governor Ricardo Rosselló (“roh-say-YO”) resigned in a 2019 scandal facilitated by this company in Puerto Rico. Belarus’s YouTube channel Nexta (“NEKH-tuh”) expanded via this company, which is ISIS’s (10[1])main recruiting platform. This (10[1])company founded by Nikolai (10[1])and Pavel (-5[1])Durov (10[1]-5[2])collects (10[1])IP addresses and uses the MTProto protocol, unlike Signal. (10[1])For (10[1])10 (10[1])points, what cloud-based (10[1])app (10[1])offers “secret chats” with end-to-end (10[1])encryption? ■END■ (10[4]0[4])

ANSWER: Telegram [or Telegram Messenger; accept Telegram Group Inc. or Telegram FZ-LLC; accept Telegramgate]
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