In our family's chat, every time my brother tried to send something along the lines "the new law which allows French police to kill protesters", Telegram would inject an article below his words, which "debunks those claims". Fuck off Duroff, it's a fucking family chat, not a twitter wall (which i don't have btw, but i was told that how it works there)

EDIT: I provided the screencapture below in the comments. It is confusing, but I think my brother copied the text from somewhere, and the "debunk" link was automatically saved & restored when you copy-paste it. Simply re-typing the said text doesn't trigger it. So the link is definitely saved from previous source

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[–] 31 points 1 week ago (1 child)

I've been using Telegram for like 10 years now, and never once has it spell checked, autocorrected, fact checked, or added ANYTHING that I didn't type myself. I'm calling bullshit.

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  • [–] 60 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Also not comforting to be reminded that someone else is reading your family chat.

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  • [–] [S] -3 points 1 week ago (8 children)

    the triggering text is: "La proposition de loi sur la présomption de légitime défense des forces de l'ordre, qualifiée de « permis de tuer » par ses détracteurs, a été adoptée par l'Assemblée nationale le 7 juillet 2026 et attend désormais son examen au Sénat"

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  • [–] 16 points 1 week ago (7 children)

    Tried it in a group chat, nothing happened:

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  • [–] 9 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    The fact that the link appeared instantly when you sent the message is suspicious. Something else is going on here. Also I noticed that the link was already included at the start of the recording.

    You're doing something weird. Try to copy the text from here on Lemmy with no link anywhere, paste it in a new message with nothing weird in it and send.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    Yeah as I said in the edited paragraph in the beginning; I think what happended is that the link gets copied, even if manually deleted. It then reappears, despite being visually deleted. So what looks like "automatically being inserted", is actually was there, but hidden

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  • [–] 9 points 1 week ago

    Yeah, so it was never automatically inserted by Telegram. It was always included by the user, at least initially. It seems like there's a bug in Telegram not showing a link when editing but including it when sending.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Yeah as I said in the edited paragraph in the beginning;

    I'm not seeing that btw

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  • [–] 9 points 1 week ago

    Reddit changed my "incompetent" to "competent" referring to a sick individual world leader.

    I don't go on reddit anymore.

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    my family channel try it yourself: the text is "La proposition de loi sur la présomption de légitime défense des forces de l'ordre, qualifiée de « permis de tuer » par ses détracteurs, a été adoptée par l'Assemblée nationale le 7 juillet 2026 et attend désormais son examen au Sénat"

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    Try turning on ned to end encryption.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    That is absolutely hilarious, and would infuriate certainly family members of mine.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    I'm guessing access to french chats is one of the conditions that durov gave under the table in order to get out of prison

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