Less than two weeks after Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov’s high-profile arrest by French police, the company has announced that it will start moderating “illegal content” in the platform’s private and group chats. Perhaps the word “announced” is overstating a change so subtle it took eagle-eyed journalists to notice the new wording in a […]
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Days on from his arrest at Paris Le Bourget airport last Saturday, it looks as if Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov will be spending more time in France than he bargained for. On Wednesday, French prosecutors formally charged Durov with being complicit in allowing the Telegram platform to be used for wide-ranging internet criminality. […]
Days on from the weekend arrest of Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov in France, the tech industry is still trying to make sense of what this event means for the future of app privacy. To Durov’s supporters, including a chorus of political opportunists, his arrest marks him out as a victim of a technological […]