(Bloomberg) -- Pavel Durov’s laissez-faire attitude to regulation made messaging app Telegram into a giant and gave him a platform to clash with officials...
-- Pavel Durov ’s laissez-faire attitude to regulation made messaging app Telegram into a giant and gave him a platform to clash with officials from Moscow to Brussels from his perch in Dubai.With Housing Costs High, Democrats Hone YIMBY Message
Despite the carefree image, Durov faces heightened pressure to monetize Telegram, which is free to use. Ahead of a $2.4 billion bond maturing in March 2026, the platform has been trying to make money off of its 900 million users. Durov is being interrogated as part of a case initiated by a cybercrime unit of the Paris prosecutor’s office. Investigative judges handling the case are looking into a wide range of allegations, which include refusing to help authorities run legal wiretaps on suspects, enabling the sale of child sexual abuse material and aiding and abetting drug trafficking.“It is absurd to claim that a platform or its owner are responsible for abuse of that platform,” Telegram said in a statement on Sunday.
Telegram is unique among major social media networks in that it doesn’t use algorithms to promote content to its users. Instead, users subscribe to channels and see posts and videos in chronological order. While that lets the platform argue it only serves users what they choose to see, bad actors have exploited the platform’s structure by posting inflammatory content in mainstream channels and then bringing new followers into more radicalized chat communities.
Durov also took a stand against Russia’s KGB successor, the Federal Security Service, when it sought to get VKontakte to shut down protest groups that formed in 2011. Keir Starmer speech live: PM vows Labour will reverse Tories’ ‘populism and failure’ after a decade of declineTearful farewell: €30m Barcelona player wept during final training before loan exit
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