There’s an alarming finding about apps marketed to U.S. troops. 1 out of 8 has foreign code—some from China and Russia. https://ntd.nyc/pikcou

Channel
Facts Matter with Roman Balmakov
@FactsMatter_Roman
On this record: Growth · Engagement · What this channel posts · Posts · Citations · Cross-platform identity · Cite this entry
6,821subscribers
-103 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 3,162–10,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001446774338 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @FactsMatter_Roman |
| Created | 18 January 2021 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel) |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 3 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 12 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 3 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/FactsMatter_Roman |
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 3 Sept 2026, 18:19 | 6,821 | -7 |
| 31 Aug 2026, 05:26 | 6,828 | -8 |
| 28 Aug 2026, 06:17 | 6,836 | -7 |
| 25 Aug 2026, 14:26 | 6,843 | -10 |
| 22 Aug 2026, 07:46 | 6,853 | -14 |
| 19 Aug 2026, 07:54 | 6,867 | -14 |
| 16 Aug 2026, 01:52 | 6,881 | -15 |
| 12 Aug 2026, 13:37 | 6,896 | -14 |
| 9 Aug 2026, 19:21 | 6,910 | -12 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 02:37 | 6,922 | -2 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 10:20 | 6,924 | no change |
| 6 Aug 2026, 09:51 | 6,924 | first reading |
Engagement
28 posts held, back to 3 July 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 12 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
- ERR · 30 days
- 17.7%
- avg views ÷ 6,821 subscribers
- Avg views / post
- 1,210
- 6 posts measured
- Reaction rate
- —
- this channel exposes no reaction counts
- Posts in window
- 6
- of 28 held
ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.
ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views — note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate.
| Window | Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 19 August 2026 |
|---|---|
| Posts held | 28 (3 July 2026 – 19 August 2026) |
| Views total | 7,262 |
| Reactions total | — |
| Forwards / comments | not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated |
| Readings taken | 20 Aug 2026, 04:13 UTC |
Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.
Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.
Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.
What this channel posts
- Video runtime
- 14m 20s
- Average length
- 1m 12s
Measured directly from 12 videos with a duration reading, out of the posts we hold for this channel — not this channel’s whole posting history, only the sample this register has actually read. An exact reading to the second, taken from the post itself rather than from Telegram’s own rounded chrome, so it carries no ≈ mark.
Recent posts
A first-of-its-kind report just dropped, and what it found is alarming for our U.S. service members. The study shows that 1 out of 8 apps targeting them contains foreign code.
Book lovers, if bent spines and creased pages make you cringe, you may want to stop reading now. Anthropic—the giant AI company behind the Claude chatbot—has been secretly destroying millions of books in the process of feeding them into the AI system. https://ntd.nyc/eop1h5
If you’re a book lover, knowing this might hurt: Anthropic has been secretly destroying millions of books and feeding them into the AI system—all to avoid paying copyright fees to the creators.
One sees through clouds day or night. The other is a high-resolution optical spy. Together, these powerful Chinese satellites were enough to put the U.S. Space Force on edge. https://ntd.nyc/3atiou
These 2 Chinese satellites put the U.S. Space Force on edge. That’s because the optical sensors on them could potentially spot American stealth aircraft—the kind designed to stay hidden from conventional radar.
Why Havana Syndrome is baffling: The mysterious malady refers to a cluster of symptoms—headaches, dizziness, tinnitus, and cognitive problems—that seems to only be impacting U.S. officials. https://ntd.nyc/elqtfr
Former CIA Director James Woolsey passed away last month from a stroke, but here’s where things start getting strange. His wife revealed that in the years before his death, Woolsey suffered from Havana Syndrome, a condition that seems to only target U.S. officials.
President Donald Trump’s plan to “dismantle” the UN’s court gets a win. Venezuela has taken the first step to exit the International Criminal Court (ICC). https://ntd.nyc/hfsc0m
President Donald Trump applauds Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodríguez. The praise came the same day Ms. Rodríguez began the process of exiting the UN’s International Criminal Court (ICC).
Travelers, take note: The State Department and embassies in several countries have issued a spate of warnings. Let’s go through what you need to know. https://ntd.nyc/bf2dzj
The U.S. State Department just issued a spate of warnings concerning countries all over the world. The most serious ones are coming out of U.S. embassies in the Middle East.
Showing the 12 most recent of 28 posts we hold for @FactsMatter_Roman. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
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Built only from forwarded posts we have actually read, on both sides. Coverage is early and deliberately incomplete: a missing link means we have not read the post that would prove it, never that the relationship does not exist. Counts are distinct forwarded posts observed, so they only ever go up as we read more.
Cross-platform identity — Wikidata
A Wikidata item names this Telegram handle as belonging to the entity it describes. This is Wikidata’s claim, not a verification made by this register — nobody here confirmed that the account is genuinely operated by the entity named. Wikidata content is CC0; every fact below is dated to when it was read from Wikidata, not to when the association was first made there.
| Label | Roman Balmakov |
|---|---|
| Description | journalist |
| YouTube | UCXuwhn5_41m4VxZJ3wcDyxA |
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 3 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Facts Matter with Roman Balmakov” (@FactsMatter_Roman), 6,821 subscribers as measured 3 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/FactsMatter_Roman.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.