In 2014, Pavel Durov fled Russia, selling his multi-billion dollar social media company VK after refusing to censor content and share user's private information with the Russian government.
In 2024, France, an EU and NATO member, arrested Durov for refusing to censor content on Telegram.
Pavel Durov recently revealed to Tucker Carlson that the FBI approached a Telegram engineer, attempting to secretly hire him to install a backdoor that would allow U.S. intelligence agencies to spy on users.
The FBI also hired agents to infiltrate 'anti-vaxx' Telegram groups, with FBI contractors creating multiple fake online identities to join chatrooms run by groups opposing vaccine mandates. – Source
Anti-Israel hackers who stole gigabytes of sensitive Israeli data have been publishing the classified information on TELEGRAM. – Source
Telegram refused Israel’s request to censor them.
Today, Telegram founder Pavel Durov was arrested in France and now faces 20 years in prison. – Source
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French authorities have detained Pavel Durov, the French-Russian billionaire who founded the messaging app Telegram, at an airport outside Paris.
Durov, 39, was wanted under a French arrest warrant due to the lack of moderation on Telegram which led to it being used for money laundering, drug trafficking and sharing pedophilic content, according to CNN affiliate BFMTV. – [CNN](https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/08/24/europe/telegram-ceo-pavel-durov-detained-france-intl-latam)
If they can do that to the Telegram founder makes you think what they’d do to the likes of Signal or even old school XMPP