According to the local channel TF1, Pavel Durov was arrested at the Paris-Le Bourget airport.
The motivation behind this is allegedly because Durov did not cooperate with French security forces, which renders him as an accomplice to drug trafficking and other serious crimes.
For now, all of this information comes from a single source — we will follow up once we discover more from authoritative sources.
According to the local channel TF1, Pavel Durov was arrested at the Paris-Le Bourget airport.
The motivation behind this is allegedly because Durov did not cooperate with French security forces, which renders him as an accomplice to drug trafficking and other serious crimes.
For now, all of this information comes from a single source — we will follow up once we discover more from authoritative sources.
In 2014, Pavel Durov fled the country after allies of the Kremlin took control of the social networking site most know just as VK. Russia's intelligence agency had asked Durov to turn over the data of anti-Kremlin protesters. Durov refused to do so. In addition, Telegram's architecture limits the ability to slow the spread of false information: the lack of a central public feed, and the fact that comments are easily disabled in channels, reduce the space for public pushback. In the past, it was noticed that through bulk SMSes, investors were induced to invest in or purchase the stocks of certain listed companies. Telegram does offer end-to-end encrypted communications through Secret Chats, but this is not the default setting. Standard conversations use the MTProto method, enabling server-client encryption but with them stored on the server for ease-of-access. This makes using Telegram across multiple devices simple, but also means that the regular Telegram chats you’re having with folks are not as secure as you may believe. "And that set off kind of a battle royale for control of the platform that Durov eventually lost," said Nathalie Maréchal of the Washington advocacy group Ranking Digital Rights.
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