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Country rapper Adam Calhoun has announced a new batch of U.S. tour dates taking place later in 2022 alongside special guests Demun Jones , Dusty Leigh and Brodnax. His Country Rap Tour gets started again October 12th in Indianapolis and stretches into November visiting markets like Flint, Oshkosh, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Houston, New Orleans, Denver, West Hollywood and Lincoln. The tour originally launched earlier this summer and was joined by the same crew.

Calhoun will continue supporting his latest collaboration album 'The Brave' (with Tom MacDonald ) which was self-released on March 4th, 2022. The new album reached a career-best #14 on the Billboard 200 and follows up 2021's 'Outlaw Shxt' (with Struggle Jennings ). Since beginning his career in 2017, the Chicago-based singer has also teamed up with Upchurch on their collaborative album 'Hooligan' as well as with Hosier on their first and last joint effort 'Made in America' .

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Adam Calhoun Adds Dates To “Country Rap Tour”

Country hip-hop singer, Adam Calhoun has announced fresh dates for his 2022 “Country Rap Tour”. Hitting the road in support of his 10 th album “The Brave” in which he collaborated with rapper Tom MacDonald, the US shows will start on October 12, 2022 and end on November 22, 2022. Adam Calhoun will be performing live in multiple cities, with the inaugural performance at the Emerson Theatre in Indianapolis. Adam Calhoun tickets are also available for his concerts in Flint, Harrison, Fort Wayne, Oshkosh, Inman, Houston, Denver, and many other cities. Bourbon Theatre in Lincoln will host the lase show on November 22, 2022.

The “Country Rap Tour” will feature Demun Jones, Dusty Leigh, and Brodnax as the special guests on select dates.

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Released in March 2022, “The Brave” is a collective effort of Calhoun and MacDonald, and the critics have given it a big nod. A patriotic album, it is deeply rooted in songs about freedom and state of the world. An amalgamation of smooth and crisp sounds, “The Brave” has earned a lot of praise from the critics. Adam Calhoun voice soars on higher notes and he sings with a lot of emotion. A blend of both outspoken and conservative emotions, the album doesn’t disappoint with both the beats and singing. Here is the list of the songs that have featured on the album

• Clout (Ft. Nova Rockafeller)
• Fire Emojis (Ft. MadChild)
• In God We Trust (Ft. Nova Rockafeller & Struggle Jennings)
• Don’t Wanna Hear It
• New World Order
• Never Gonna Come Down
• Smoke (Ft. Nova Rockafeller)
• Let Me Go (Ft. Nova Rockafeller)
• We All Got Some Things

About Adam Calhoun

A rapper, singer, and songwriter, Adam Calhoun found fame through YouTube and made his breakthrough in 2017 with the album “Made in America”. He followed it with two number one albums, “AmerAcal” and “The Throne”. Presenting an eclectic mix of county hip-hop, Calhoun has stirred a strong fanbase and his concerts see a huge attendance. A rising star in the music industry, his talent is evolving as he continues to experiment with different musical styles.

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Tour Name: Country Rap Tour

Supporting Acts: Demun Jones, Dusty Leigh, and Brodnax

Start Date: October 12, 2022

End Date: November 22, 2022

Latest Album: The Brave

Music Genre: Country rap and Midwest hip-hop

Schedule: Multiple cities across the US

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Adam Calhoun 2022 Tour Announcement – Country Rap Tour Schedule

Adam Calhoun has extended his “Country Rap tour,” taking him to 26 new cities. The next Adam Calhoun concert takes place on October 12th in Indianapolis, IN, stopping in Harrison, OH, Dilworth, MN, and New Orleans, LA, before concluding on November 22nd in Lincoln, NE.

“It’s on, let’s go!! For the first time in three years, we’re on tour. No mandates, no “special” rules, none of that,” Calhoun wrote on Instagram, “I’m bringing my friends with me, and we gonna have a good time. Love y’all, see you out there.” Joined by Adam Calhoun, Demun Jones, Dusty Leigh, and Brodnax, Calhoun will have the best time with his long-bearded friends. He’s opinionated, energetic, and excited to get on the road again with his country-rap crew! Calhoun is supporting his tenth album, The Brave , a collaborative project with Tom MacDonald, one of his most commercially successful projects in recent years. 

The Brave sold 16,000 copies in its first week in March 2022, per Billboard , bowing at No. 1 on the “Top Album Sales” chart. Marking Calhoun’s first top ten album, it’s a majorly big deal, and he’s giving this record the love it deserves on his “Country Rap tour.” Night after night, you’ll enjoy tracks like “Soldier,” “Clout,” “Don’t Wanna Hear It,” and “Never Gonna Come Down” in the most fun US venues. From the Whiskey A-Go-Go in Los Angeles, CA, to the Sundance Steakhouse and Saloon in Fort Collins, CO, the party never stops with this patriotic rapper behind the mic. 

Full disclosure: Adam Calhoun is not for the faint of heart. His strong political views have earned him a reputation as not just an all-American musician but also a social media personality. The unapologetically Republican artist shares his views not just with his 1.3 million YouTube subscribers and 758,000 Instagram followers but with anybody who listens to his catalog of country-rap hits. They’re catchy, intense, and reminiscent of country rap at its finest, and those who know and love Calhoun will have a blast on this upcoming trek. Get your tickets to the Adam Calhoun tour today!

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October 12, 2022 – Indianapolis, IN – Emerson Theatre October 13, 2022 – Flint, MI – The Machine Shop – MI October 14, 2022 – Harrison, OH – Blue Note – Harrison October 15, 2022 – Fort Wayne, IN – Pieres Entertainment Center October 16, 2022 – Oshkosh, WI – Oshkosh Arena October 18, 2022 – Minneapolis, MN – Cabooze October 19, 2022 – Dilworth, MN – TAK Music Venue October 20, 2022 – Sioux Falls, SD – Bigs Bar October 21, 2022 – Iowa City, IA – Wildwood Smokehouse and Saloon October 22, 2022 – Inman, KS – 365 Sports Complex October 23, 2022 – Sauget, IL – Pops October 26, 2022 – Houston, TX – Scout Bar – Houston October 27, 2022 – Haltom City, TX – Haltom Theater October 30, 2022 – New Orleans, LA – Southport Hall November 2, 2022 – Colorado Springs, CO – Sunshine Studios Live November 3, 2022 – Fort Collins, CO – Sundance Steakhouse and Saloon November 5, 2022 – Denver, CO – Roxy Theatre Denver November 6, 2022 – Grand Junction, CO – Mesa Theater and Club November 8, 2022 – West Hollywood, CA – Whisky A Go GO November 9, 2022 – Tucson, AZ – ENCORE November 11, 2022 – Las Vegas, NV – Backstage Bar and Billiards November 12, 2022 – Ramona, CA – Ramona Mainstage November 13, 2022 – Fresno, CA – Fulton 55 November 16, 2022 – Bend, OR – Midtown Ballroom November 17, 2022 – Medford, OR – The Rocky Tonk Saloon November 18, 2022 – Garden City, ID – Revolution Concert House and Event Center November 19, 2022 – Idaho Falls, ID – The Gem – Idaho Falls November 20, 2022 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Complex – UT November 22, 2022 – Lincoln, NE – Bourbon Theatre Adam Calhoun tickets are available on the secondary marketplace, TicketSales.com . Stay tuned for more announcements!

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For millions of people, Telegram is like any other social media or messaging app.

In Brazil, 167,000 people subscribe to a Telegram channel for news about reality shows and entertainment.

More than one million users in India prepare for government exams in another channel.

And in one called Whale with more than three million followers, crypto trading tips are swapped in Persian.

Look deeper, and a dark underbelly emerges.

Uncut lumps of cocaine and shards of crystal meth are for sale on the app. Handguns and stolen checks are widely available.

White nationalists use the platform to coordinate fight clubs and plan rallies.

Hamas broadcast its Oct. 7 attack on Israel on the site.

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Drug dealers, scammers and white nationalists openly conduct business and spread toxic speech on the platform, according to a Times analysis of more than 3.2 million Telegram messages.

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Paul Mozur reports on global technology, Adam Satariano on European technology, Aaron Krolik on data and technology, and Steven Lee Myers on misinformation.

Telegram has become a global sewer of criminal activity, disinformation, child sexual abuse material, terrorism and racist incitement, according to a four-month investigation by The New York Times that analyzed more than 3.2 million Telegram messages from over 16,000 channels. The company, which offers features that enable criminals, terrorists and grifters to organize at scale and to sidestep scrutiny from the authorities, has looked the other way as illegal and extremist activities have flourished openly on the app.

The degree to which Telegram has been inundated by such content has not been previously reported. The Times investigation found 1,500 channels operated by white supremacists who coordinate activities among almost one million people around the world. At least two dozen channels sold weapons. In at least 22 channels with more than 70,000 followers, MDMA, cocaine, heroin and other drugs were advertised for delivery to more than 20 countries.

Hamas, ISIS and other terror groups have thrived on Telegram, often amassing large audiences across dozens of channels. The Times analyzed more than 40 channels associated with Hamas, which showed that average viewership surged up to 10 times after the Oct. 7 attacks, garnering more than 400 million views in October.

Telegram is “the most popular place for ill-intentioned, violent actors to congregate,” said Rebecca Weiner, the deputy commissioner for intelligence and counterterrorism at the New York Police Department. “If you’re a bad guy, that’s where you will land.”

Operating like a stateless organization, Telegram has long behaved as if it were above the law — though that may be changing. Pavel Durov , the Russian-born founder of the platform, was arrested and charged in France last month for failure to cooperate with law enforcement and complicity in crimes committed on the service, including the distribution of child sexual abuse material, drug trafficking and fraud.

In many democratic countries, patience with the app is wearing thin. The European Union is exploring new oversight of Telegram under the Digital Services Act, a law that forces large online platforms to police their services more aggressively, two people familiar with the plans said.

Telegram’s tolerance for toxic activities begins with Mr. Durov, 39, who runs the company with a devout belief that governments should not interfere in what people say or do online. This year, he wrote on his Telegram channel:

Were it entirely up to us, we would always give our users what they ask for: access to uncensored information and opinions so that they can make their own decisions.

Telegram has benefited people in authoritarian countries who need ways to freely communicate, but the app has also contributed to real-world harm . Hateful discourse that spread on the platform has played a role in recent riots in Britain and arson at migrant housing centers in Ireland.

A disparate collective on Telegram known as Terrorgram, where neo-fascists share messages and videos encouraging violence, has been linked to attacks, including a shooting in 2022 at an L.G.B.T.Q. bar in Slovakia.

Even as Telegram approaches one billion users, it has prided itself on behaving differently from its tech peers. The company, based in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, operates like a start-up, with about 60 full-time employees. It has hired just a few hundred contractors to work as moderators, and it steadfastly ignores most requests for assistance from law enforcement agencies.

An email inbox used for inquiries from government agencies is rarely checked, former employees said. When a House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on Capitol Hill sought information from 15 internet platforms, only Telegram did not respond.

In contrast, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok have entire divisions dedicated to complying with law enforcement requests and thousands of moderators scouring their services for illicit and harmful material.

Only Apple and Google, which can expel Telegram from their app stores, have successfully pushed the platform to take down and restrict the spread of harmful material, said analysts, government officials and tech executives. Governments have sometimes turned to the tech giants for help getting Telegram to act.

Hours after The Times sent Telegram a detailed list of questions, Mr. Durov on Thursday posted his first comments to his 12 million-plus followers since his arrest. He said claims that Telegram was “some sort of anarchic paradise are absolutely untrue” and that the company removed “millions of harmful posts and channels everyday.”

He attributed the volume of illicit and harmful content to Telegram’s “growing pains,” adding that “that’s why I made it my personal goal to ensure that we significantly improve things in this regard.”

In a statement to The Times, Telegram said that “99.999 percent of our users” were lawful and that while there was “plenty of work to do,” the platform was making improvements to its features and moderation.

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In December 2022, Hayden Espinosa began serving a 33-month sentence in federal prison in Louisiana for buying and selling illegal firearms and weapon parts he made with 3-D printers. That did not stop his business.

Using cellphones that had been smuggled into prison, Mr. Espinosa continued his illicit trade on a Telegram channel, which was named after 3-D printing and the Second Amendment right to bear arms, according to an indictment in June by the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg Jr.

One post in the channel’s “shop” offered a menu of prices for weapon parts, including ammunition clips and devices called auto sears, which empty a magazine with a single pull of the trigger. “DM for International Orders,” the post said.

Telegram combines the anonymity of the dark web with the ease-of-use of an online marketplace. It is easy to search and find channels selling guns, illicit narcotics, prescription drugs and fraudulent A.T.M. cards, called clone cards. Alongside photos and videos of available merchandise, dealers leave information on how to message them directly.

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One reason Telegram has become a haven for such activity stems from its unique features, including “channels” and “supergroups,” which rivals like WhatsApp were slower to add.

Telegram began as a standard text messaging service similar to iMessage or WhatsApp, before it began evolving in 2014 by adding broadcasting features. These “channels” are now one of the platform’s best-known tools for sharing text, images, links and videos by news organizations, world leaders and government agencies.

Telegram then introduced “supergroups,” which harked back to an era of unruly AOL chat rooms. These groups attracted new users but also presented risks.

While WhatsApp kept group chat sizes in the hundreds and limited link sharing to blunt the spread of disinformation, Telegram did the opposite and steadily lifted the cap on group sizes. By 2019, a group administrator could run city-size chat groups with as many as 200,000 users.

Initially, this attracted new users interested in cryptocurrencies. In the crypto world, Telegram became a critical tool for talking about new digital coins and cultivating communities dedicated to, and often heavily invested in, particular currencies.

These tools also attracted a less savory group of users, including extremists, disinformation peddlers and sellers of illicit goods.

“I don’t want to paint with a broad brush,” said Mr. Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, “but I think the combination of a number of things — the encryption, the ability to reach large numbers of people, the ability to set up subgroups and their posture toward law enforcement — creates an environment in which it’s not surprising that criminal activity is occurring.”

Nor has the platform dedicated significant resources to weed this activity out. As Telegram ballooned, its staff barely grew. Today, it has contractors and artificial intelligence tools to proactively monitor the public parts of Telegram, which does not include many groups or individual chats.

The company said it had a moderation process, which includes constantly reviewing content, fielding user complaints and publishing daily reports on child sexual abuse materials.

Even so, The Times found at least 50 channels openly selling contraband, including guns, drugs and fraudulent debit cards. One channel that evoked the Wild West with its name called successful deliveries “touchdowns,” a popular slang in such groups.

Telegram’s features — coupled with its refusal to cooperate with the police — have stymied criminal investigations, increasingly frustrating the authorities. The company can gain access to messages unless users select a secret chat option with end-to-end encryption, according to two former employees. On at least two occasions, the company has retrieved the messages of former employees, one person said.

But the company, which denied that employees had access to user data, has refused to share information with governments. France charged Mr. Durov with complicity in trafficking child sexual imagery, among other crimes, because of what the chief prosecutor called “an almost total lack of response” to requests for assistance.

Svenja Meininghaus, a state prosecutor focused on illegal hate speech in Germany, said other major social media platforms had developed practices for working with law enforcement. But “we don’t get any cooperation from Telegram at all,” she said, adding, “I can’t recall one case.”

Telegram said it was “now working hard to make sure we can process legitimate requests from democratic countries while still defending the rights of our users elsewhere.”

Mr. Espinosa’s gun market on Telegram might never have been uncovered except that one of its members was Payton Gendron , who massacred 10 people at a supermarket in Buffalo in 2022.

Investigators scouring his life online for motives for the shooting discovered the channel, which also featured racist and extremist views he had shared.

Having stumbled across the channel’s illicit trade in components of untraceable “ghost guns,” an undercover police officer in New York City reached out to Mr. Espinosa, 24, and bought a handgun, an assault rifle and two silencers from him in August 2023, according to the indictment. A lawyer for Mr. Espinosa with the Legal Aid Society could not be reached for comment.

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When Hamas attacked Israel on the morning of Oct. 7, it announced the assault on Telegram.

Within two and a half hours of the first incursions, Hamas began posting grisly videos of the carnage. In the first 72 hours of the war, channels affiliated with the group posted nearly 700 times, receiving over 54 million views, according to The Times’s analysis.

Telegram became so useful to Hamas that the group turned to the platform more than it did an official Hamas app, the Al-Qassam Brigades Android app, which it had built to communicate with supporters. Content posted to both platforms consistently saw 100 times more reach on Telegram, The Times found.

Hamas capitalized on other Telegram features. After Oct. 7, members of its groups and other supporters easily downloaded videos of the violence and posted them to other platforms with little interference. The effect was a surge of grisly clips across the internet.

After Apple and Google demanded some moderation, Telegram relented — but only a little. In late October, the company restricted access to some Hamas-related content on copies of its app distributed through the official Apple and Google app stores. It also sent some users instructions on how to download another version of the app that did not have the content removed.

“If you wish to continue reading those channels, you can do so using the direct version of Telegram for Android which has the minimum possible restrictions,” said a message sent from an official Telegram account that was reviewed by The Times. It included a link to the unfiltered version of the app.

In contrast, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube blocked accounts linked to Hamas, as well as posts that were overtly sympathetic to its cause.

In an Oct. 13 post, Mr. Durov defended the availability of Hamas-related content. In one instance, he noted, Hamas had used Telegram to alert Israelis of a coming attack.

Earlier this week, Hamas used Telegram to warn civilians in Ashkelon to leave the area ahead of their missile strikes. Would shutting down their channel help save lives — or would it endanger more lives? It’s always tempting to act on emotional impulses. But such complex situations require thorough consideration that should also take into account the differences between social platforms.

This month, Hamas used Telegram to release videos of hostages in Gaza who were later killed. One of the videos, which was viewed more than 100,000 times, included English, Arabic and Hebrew subtitles to maximize its audience.

Basem Naim, a Hamas spokesman, declined to comment. After being contacted by The Times, Telegram blocked access to several Hamas channels on Friday.

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Mr. Durov, who was born in 1984 in the Soviet Union, became known as Russia’s Mark Zuckerberg after he founded VKontakte, a social network similar to Facebook, in 2006.

As VKontakte took off, Mr. Durov said the Kremlin pressured him to remove content and report users, wary of the network’s power to organize anti-government sentiment. That inspired him to start Telegram as a method of keeping communications safe from the Kremlin’s prying eyes. The app was released in 2013.

In 2014, Mr. Durov left Russia. Since then he has lived itinerantly, working from Berlin, San Francisco, London and elsewhere before landing in Dubai. Worth an estimated $9 billion, he has become a sort of free speech folk hero.

So on Aug. 24, as news of Mr. Durov’s arrest in France ricocheted around the world, the events were debated by a group nearly 5,000 miles away in Montana.

They were members of a local Telegram channel for White Lives Matter, a disparate white nationalist group that adopted the name from the movement formed in 2013 to protest police killings of Black people.

The white nationalist group is inextricably linked to Telegram for communication, recruitment and coordination. On the platform, there are nearly 50 chapters of the movement around the world, in places like Florida, Alabama, New York, Italy, Russia, Germany and the Czech Republic. They share anti-immigration views and commentary and organize protests or other actions, like unfurling racist banners in public spaces, The Times found.

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“Join our team, and lets make something good happen for a change!” read a recent post in the Montana channel.

The chapters, which typically have a few hundred members, have been linked to violence. One Ohio member firebombed a church that hosted a drag event in Alliance, Ohio, last year, according to court documents .

The movement takes advantage of Telegram’s features. Known as a hub and spoke model, an international channel with more than 21,000 members amplifies broader messages while smaller local groups focus on organizing and recruiting.

Tinier private channels are where activities, sometimes illegal, are planned, experts in extremist movements said. The result was a feedback loop where local actions, such as a vandalism campaign, were amplified globally, which in turn inspired more action elsewhere.

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Other far-right nationalist groups have also sprouted on Telegram. In a channel for the American far-right extremist group Proud Boys, acts of political intimidation were planned, including demonstrations outside election centers in 2022 and a campaign this year to steal and damage rainbow L.G.B.T.Q. flags during Pride Month. In Ireland, anti-immigration activists use Telegram to share the locations of immigration centers, some of which were later targeted by arsonists.

Some extremist groups have grown more cautious as scrutiny of Telegram has intensified. Messages pinned to local channels instruct new members on how to stay anonymous.

“Remember: This is a public channel, and not everyone who views it is friendly to people who support WLM,” read a post on one channel. “Write and converse accordingly.”

A new member to one chat was instructed by a group administrator to “please setup a non personal profile picture.” To be invited into more private chats, new recruits must first interact with an automated bot, which connects them with a local chapter after vetting their intentions and background.

“We are here simply because we like what Telegram stands for, uncensored freedom of speech,” an administrator of the channel wrote in response to questions. “Condemning ‘It’s okay to be white’ as hate speech is why we are here and will continue to speak and fight against the anti-white narrative.”

Ahead of the U.S. presidential election in November, security researchers are monitoring Telegram for threats of violence. In many public channels, activists are already making claims of voter fraud, with calls to be prepared to act, said Arie Perliger, a criminology professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, whose research is partly funded by the National Institute of Justice, a research agency of the Department of Justice.

If former President Donald J. Trump loses in November, Mr. Perliger said, “we need to understand Telegram will probably be a substantial infrastructure for extremists who want to do something about it.”

Can Telegram Be Brought to Heel?

Several times a year, employees at Apple’s Silicon Valley headquarters send notes to Telegram demanding it remove material that has been flagged as illegal or otherwise harmful.

Apple explains that under its guidelines, the app must have policies to filter out objectionable content and block abusive users, said three people with knowledge of the exchanges who declined to be identified discussing private talks.

Telegram often voices its objections, they said, but it almost always bends to Apple’s demands. Where governments have failed to get the app to act — or even respond — Apple and Google have had some success by using the threat of kicking the service out of their app stores.

With Telegram, the companies are trying to balance the app’s potential harms against its beneficial role as a private communications tool and a critical piece of digital infrastructure in countries like Ukraine and Russia. They must also consider differing rules about what is classified as illegal speech around the world.

In practice, the most effective way to get Telegram to act is a sort of whisper-down-the-lane approach in which users, advocacy groups, news coverage and sometimes governments draw Apple’s and Google’s attention to the app’s harmful and illegal content. The tech giants in turn notify Telegram to respond.

In addition to Apple’s regular messages to address such content, Google sends requests to Telegram almost weekly, four people with knowledge of the interactions said. Telegram responds quickly when alerted to clearly illegal material like child sexual abuse content, they said, but it is more resistant to demands to address speech-related content that is less clearly unlawful.

Telegram said it abided by Apple’s and Google’s moderation rules. Google and Apple declined to comment on Telegram and said their rules were detailed in developer guidelines .

Mr. Durov has grown increasingly antagonistic toward the tech giants. He has called Apple a “trillion-dollar monopoly” and chided the company in April for blocking Telegram on its China app store, writing that “prioritizing profits over freedom for users is not a good long-term strategy.”

“The largest pressure toward Telegram is not coming from governments, it’s coming from Apple and Google,” Mr. Durov said in an interview this year with Tucker Carlson.

Gray Beltran contributed design and development.

Methodology

The Times analyzed 3,242,664 Telegram messages from 16,220 channels. Prose Intelligence , a company that analyzes Telegram data, provided an initial list of channels. Using those, The Times wrote code to download messages and expanded the network using hashtags, common phrases and forwarded messages.

An earlier version of this article misstated the language in which crypto trading tips are swapped in the Whale channel on Telegram. It is Persian, not Arabic.

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Paul Mozur is the global technology correspondent for The Times, based in Taipei. Previously he wrote about technology and politics in Asia from Hong Kong, Shanghai and Seoul. More about Paul Mozur

Adam Satariano is a technology correspondent for The Times, based in London. More about Adam Satariano

Steven Lee Myers covers misinformation and disinformation from San Francisco. Since joining The Times in 1989, he has reported from around the world, including Moscow, Baghdad, Beijing and Seoul. More about Steven Lee Myers

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