French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday that Durov’s arrest took place as part of an “ongoing judicial investigation,” and that politics had no part to play in the arrest.
By Associated PressFILE - Telegram co-founder Pavel Durov, center, smiles following his meeting with Indonesian Communication and Information Minister Rudiantara in Jakarta, Indonesia on Aug. 1, 2017.
Jean-Michel Bernigaud, secretary general of Ofmin, a French police agency focused on preventing violence against minors, said in a LinkedIn post Monday that Durov’s arrest was related to the app’s inability to deal with offensive content against minors. Durov, a Russian-born billionaire who lives in Dubai, was detained over the weekend at the Bourget airport outside Paris as he landed from Azerbaijan in his private jet, French TV channel TF1 said Saturday night. He is a dual citizen of the United Arab Emirates and France, according to his company.
Telegram is one of a number of social media and messaging apps to face complaints about insufficient moderation or failure to act against child sex abuse content, fake news, disinformation, hate speech, and extremist groups and ideologies promoting violence.
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