"He has kind of an old-school cyber-libertarian world view where technology is there to set you free," Marรฉchal said. False news often spreads via public groups, or chats, with potentially fatal effects. After fleeing Russia, the brothers founded Telegram as a way to communicate outside the Kremlin's orbit. They now run it from Dubai, and Pavel Durov says it has more than 500 million monthly active users. Oleksandra Matviichuk, a Kyiv-based lawyer and head of the Center for Civil Liberties, called Durovโs position "very weak," and urged concrete improvements. Such instructions could actually endanger people โ citizens receive air strike warnings via smartphone alerts.
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