US-made missiles are blowing stuff up inside Russia because Russia invaded a treaty partner who gave up their nukes in exchange for a security alliance with the US. And yet Russian apps are in our app stores. Nobody needs to imagine.
The only Russian app I'm aware of is Telegram. What other Russian apps might people be unwittingly running?
No servers in Russia. Given Pavel's prior history it seems unlikely that he would cooperate with Russian government. Plenty of other criticism of telegram is warranted but it's probably not a tool of the Russian government.
Edit: related https://hate.tg/
I would argue that Telegram is a much, much larger security threat to the average individual American than Tiktok. Except they comply with government search warrants and don't enable E2E encryption by default so they are useful to the American National Security Establishment and get to stay.
>a treaty partner who gave up their nukes in exchange for a security alliance with the US
If it wasn't ratified by the senate then we didn't enter into a treaty, I really don't understand why this is so hard for people to understand.
> yet Russian apps are in our app stores
Major social media apps? Chinese apps are still in our app stores, just not TikTok (as of Sunday).