Telegram co-founder and CEO Pavel Durov was arrested in France on Aug. 24 after he arrived in the country on a private jet. He's now facing several criminal charges related to an investigation into the popular messaging app's being a platform for range of criminal activities.
Russian billionaire and Telegram CEO Pavel Durov is facing a string of charges in France amid an investigation into the messaging platform being a haven for alleged criminal activity. But some say it's a dangerous precedent for a tech executive to face consequences for how their app is used.Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was arrested in France on Aug. 24.
He also co-founded, along with Nikolai, the popular Russian social media platform VKontakte, or VK, and was its CEO from 2006 until 2014, when he sold his stake after pressure from Russian authorities. Being a large company based in the U.S. raises "suspicion" among some, Stokel-Walker said, that Meta companies would "be willing to give up some of their user data if asked by government."Encryption, and with it the ability to avoid law enforcement and government agencies, has attracted some sinister characters to Telegram, from extremist groups to child pornographers.
"We've seen situations where youth are driven to Telegram through luring and sextortion incidents as well," he told CBC News. Billionaire Elon Musk, who bought Twitter in 2022 and transformed it into what is now known as X, has been speaking out in support of Durov. The self-proclaimed "free speech absolutist" shared athat holding the head of tech company responsible for activity on their platform is a "dangerous precedent" that could "be used as leverage to make companies censor content at governments' requests.
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