Telegram CEO arrested in France
Rob Beschizza
Durov. Photo: Nick Lubushko CC BY-SA 4.0)
Pavel Durov, the CEO of private messaging app Telegram, was arrested in France this weekend and charged under various spectacular crimes—terrorism, pedophilia, fraud, etc.—on the rationale that the company's failure to police and moderate users amounts to complicity in crimes involving use of the platform.
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