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Worse, the role can be taken away at any moment by another admin from their phone, with no notification to your system, so code that worked yesterday can fail today for a reason that is entirely outside the API. The defence is to subscribe to the group participants event, record the role your number currently holds, and check it before a batch rather than discovering the problem halfway through. 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