The Telegram CEO was taken into custody at a Paris airport over the weekend.
Telegram on Sunday questioned the grounds for France’s detention of CEO Pavel Durov, the messaging app’s billionaire co-founder who was taken into custody at a Paris airport over the weekend.
Ofmin is the coordinating agency in a preliminary probe into alleged offenses such as fraud, drug trafficking, cyberbullying, organized crime and promotion of terrorism, according to AFP. to Telegram, sank as much as 23% on news that Durov was in custody. Its relatively light-touch approach to content moderation has led to allegations that it’s frequently used for criminal activity and extremist material.
That platform quickly became popular among Russians, making it a target for a billionaire with ties to the Kremlin.
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