Here's the message by Pavel Durov, CEO of Telegram:
"😝 Next month, channel owners on Telegram can start receiving financial rewards from their work.
Broadcast channels on Telegram generate 1 trillion views monthly. Currently, only 10% of these views are monetized with Telegram Ads (https://promote.telegram.org/) — a promotion tool designed with privacy (https://t.me/durov/203) in mind.
In March, the Telegram Ad Platform will officially open to all advertisers in nearly a hundred new countries. Channel owners…
also https://www.wired.com/story/the-kremlin-has-entered-the-chat/