Security issues on Telegram Dear fellow young Greens, For | FYEG - Federation of Young European Greens

Security issues on Telegram

Dear fellow young Greens,

For years now, young Greens have been organising and connecting with each other internationally, using the messaging application Telegram.

As you may know, Telegram saw a surge of incoming users in the recent weeks due to everything that has been going on with WhatsApp and Parler. Apparently, there are cases of Telegram channels being shut down due to people going in and posting pornography and direct calls to violence.

After seeing this, Federation of Young European Greens’ office has decided to take the following precautionary measures:

We changed the group settings of the general FYEG Telegram chat from public to private. If you would like to invite a friend, colleague, or activists to the FYEG general Telegram chat: write a direct message to one of the group administrators, or; write a message in the FYEG general Telegram chat, tagging asking one of the group admins to add someone to the chat.

Make sure to share the contact information (Name, Telegram handle, and phone number) in your request
We checked recent new members that had joined and saw that no one new has been added to the Group in the last weeks.

We ran a check for all other FYEG chats that exist and can conclude that all of these are private, meaning that members can only join when they are added my the group’s admin

We will continue monitoring all FYEG chats and screening new members that are added

Note there are two public broadcast channels that FYEG administers, but since only the owner can send messages (posts are one-way), there is no risk of infiltration. This is the case for the Telegram broadcast channel Green Team and Young Greens, which you are welcome to join.

You can contact our office via office@fyeg.org for any concerns or questions regarding the security of our Telegram chats.