Telegramgate

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Telegramgate, also known as Chatgate, RickyLeaks and Verano del '19 (transl. Summer of '19), was a political scandal involving Ricardo Rosselló, Governor of Puerto Rico. The scandal unfolded on July 8, 2019, with the leak of hundreds of pages of a group chat between Rosselló and members of his cabinet on the messaging application Telegram. The document exposed racist and homophobic conversations that targeted several individuals and groups, including discussions on how the members of the group chat would conspire to use the media to their gain and target political opponents. The leak came in the midst of allegations by the former Secretary of Treasury of Puerto Rico, Raúl Maldonado Gautier, that his department boasted an "institutional mafia," in which Rosselló was involved. The leaks also surfaced a year after a previous scandal, dubbed WhatsApp Gate, involving other members of Rosselló's cabinet. Mass protests arose, reaching up to a million people at a single event on July 17. On July...

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