Telegram about the arrested CEO: "Absurd - has nothing to hide"
Messaging app Telegram is defending its CEO Pavel Durov, who is in custody after being arrested at an airport outside Paris this weekend. This is evident from a statement on their own platform, AFP reports.
"Durov has nothing to hide and often travels in Europe. It is absurd to claim that a platform or its owner is responsible for misconduct on the platform," the statement reads.
The routines for moderating messages follow industry standards, the company further states.
The 39-year-old billionaire is suspected of failing to take the necessary steps to prevent criminal use of the app, according to AFP.
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Messaging app Telegram is defending its CEO Pavel Durov, who is in custody after being arrested at an airport outside Paris this weekend. This is evident from a statement on their own platform, AFP reports.
"Durov has nothing to hide and often travels in Europe. It is absurd to claim that a platform or its owner is responsible for misconduct on the platform," the statement reads.
The routines for moderating messages follow industry standards, the company further states.
The 39-year-old billionaire is suspected of failing to take the necessary steps to prevent criminal use of the app, according to AFP.
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Macron hits back after arrest: "Not politics"
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was arrested as part of an investigation into drug trafficking, child pornography and money laundering on the messaging app. This is stated by French prosecutors after this weekend's arrest at an airport outside Paris, Reuters reports.
In a first statement on the case, the country's President Emmanuel Macron clarifies that the arrest of the Franco-Russian entrepreneur is not politically motivated.
“It is in no way a political decision. It is up to the judges to decide.”
According to The Guardian, several Russian politicians have been asked about the arrest to be about an alleged lack of freedom of expression in the Western world.
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was arrested as part of an investigation into drug trafficking, child pornography and money laundering on the messaging app. This is stated by French prosecutors after this weekend's arrest at an airport outside Paris, Reuters reports.
In a first statement on the case, the country's President Emmanuel Macron clarifies that the arrest of the Franco-Russian entrepreneur is not politically motivated.
“It is in no way a political decision. It is up to the judges to decide.”
According to The Guardian, several Russian politicians have been asked about the arrest to be about an alleged lack of freedom of expression in the Western world.
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Analysis: The arrest should make Swedish gangs feel worried
It is not surprising that Russia wants to present the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov as a Western attack on freedom of expression, writes Damien Leloup in an analysis in Le Monde.
However, Leloup believes that the accusations that the case is politically motivated are comical, since Russia already tried to block the encrypted messaging service six years ago, but without success.
He writes that American right-wing profiles such as Tucker Carlson spread a similar narrative. but that Durov is not accused of "crime of opinion", but that it is, among other things, about how child pornography was spread on the platform.
And just like in any democracy, he is considered innocent until proven guilty, writes Leloup.
DN's Erik de la Reguera believes that there are a lot of people who should feel worried after the arrest of the French-Russian billionaire. This is because the service has attracted everything from political extremists and terrorists to organized criminal gangs.
Much about the French legal case is unclear and soon Durov may as well be free again, writes de le Reguera, with the addition:
"But some Swedish gang criminals right now have reason to be worried."
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