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.
Lastly, the web previews of t.me links have been given a new look, adding chat backgrounds and design elements from the fully-features Telegram Web client. The Security Service of Ukraine said in a tweet that it was able to effectively target Russian convoys near Kyiv because of messages sent to an official Telegram bot account called "STOP Russian War." The account, "War on Fakes," was created on February 24, the same day Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a "special military operation" and troops began invading Ukraine. The page is rife with disinformation, according to The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, which studies digital extremism and published a report examining the channel. But because group chats and the channel features are not end-to-end encrypted, Galperin said user privacy is potentially under threat. Given the pro-privacy stance of the platform, it’s taken as a given that it’ll be used for a number of reasons, not all of them good. And Telegram has been attached to a fair few scandals related to terrorism, sexual exploitation and crime. Back in 2015, Vox described Telegram as “ISIS’ app of choice,” saying that the platform’s real use is the ability to use channels to distribute material to large groups at once. Telegram has acted to remove public channels affiliated with terrorism, but Pavel Durov reiterated that he had no business snooping on private conversations.
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