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The CEO of "Telegram" rejects the accusations, says that his arrest was wrong

2024-09-06 07:40:00, Kosova & Bota CNA
The CEO of "Telegram" rejects the accusations, says that his arrest
Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov

Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov has criticized French authorities, calling his arrest last week over allegations of insufficient moderation at the messaging app "wrong," the BBC reports. 

In his first public statement since his arrest, he denied claims that Telegram is "some kind of anarchist paradise."

Durov was arrested on August 25 at an airport north of Paris and has since been charged with complicity in facilitating illegal transactions, drug trafficking, fraud and spreading images of child sexual abuse on his social network. 

"If a country is unhappy with an Internet service, the established practice is to initiate legal action against the service itself," said the Russian-born billionaire, who is also a French citizen.

Telegram allows groups of up to 200,000 members, which critics have argued makes it easier for disinformation to spread and for users to share conspiratorial, neo-Nazi, pedophile or terror-related content.

Recently in the UK, the app has come under scrutiny for hosting far-right channels that were instrumental in organizing violent disorder in English cities last month.

Pavel Durov, 39, was born in Russia and now lives in Dubai, where Telegram is based. He has citizenship of the United Arab Emirates and France.

Telegram, which he founded in 2013, is particularly popular in Russia, Ukraine and the states of the former Soviet Union.

The app was banned in Russia in 2018, following an earlier refusal by it to hand over user data. The ban was lifted in 2021.

Telegram ranks as one of the leading social media platforms after Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok and Wechat./CNA 





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