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Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, shared a bold statement emphasizing Telegram’s commitment to freedom of speech. While Durov didn’t explicitly name anyone, his remarks appear to reference recent announcements by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg about reducing censorship on Meta platforms.
Zuckerberg had attributed this policy shift to recent political changes, including Trump's election win, calling it a "tipping point" for free speech.
In his statement, Durov highlighted Telegram’s long-standing support for freedom of speech, independent of political climates, and criticized rival platforms, saying, "The real test of their values will come when political winds change again. It’s easy to support something when you risk nothing."
Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, shared a bold statement emphasizing Telegram’s commitment to freedom of speech. While Durov didn’t explicitly name anyone, his remarks appear to reference recent announcements by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg about reducing censorship on Meta platforms.
Zuckerberg had attributed this policy shift to recent political changes, including Trump's election win, calling it a "tipping point" for free speech.
In his statement, Durov highlighted Telegram’s long-standing support for freedom of speech, independent of political climates, and criticized rival platforms, saying, "The real test of their values will come when political winds change again. It’s easy to support something when you risk nothing."
Telegram was co-founded by Pavel and Nikolai Durov, the brothers who had previously created VKontakte. VK is Russia’s equivalent of Facebook, a social network used for public and private messaging, audio and video sharing as well as online gaming. In January, SimpleWeb reported that VK was Russia’s fourth most-visited website, after Yandex, YouTube and Google’s Russian-language homepage. In 2016, Forbes’ Michael Solomon described Pavel Durov (pictured, below) as the “Mark Zuckerberg of Russia.” Soloviev also promoted the channel in a post he shared on his own Telegram, which has 580,000 followers. The post recommended his viewers subscribe to "War on Fakes" in a time of fake news. Some people used the platform to organize ahead of the storming of the U.S. Capitol in January 2021, and last month Senator Mark Warner sent a letter to Durov urging him to curb Russian information operations on Telegram. Since its launch in 2013, Telegram has grown from a simple messaging app to a broadcast network. Its user base isn’t as vast as WhatsApp’s, and its broadcast platform is a fraction the size of Twitter, but it’s nonetheless showing its use. While Telegram has been embroiled in controversy for much of its life, it has become a vital source of communication during the invasion of Ukraine. But, if all of this is new to you, let us explain, dear friends, what on Earth a Telegram is meant to be, and why you should, or should not, need to care. Although some channels have been removed, the curation process is considered opaque and insufficient by analysts.
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