Pavel Durov, the chief executive officer (CEO) of Telegram, has described his arrest in relation to allegations of insufficient moderation on the messaging app as 'misguided'.
September 6, 2024 2:07 pmPavel Durov, the chief executive officer of Telegram, says his arrest over allegations of insufficient moderation on the messaging app is “misguided”.
“If a country is unhappy with an Internet service, the established practice is to start a legal action against the service itself,” the Telegram CEO said. “Using laws from the pre-smartphone era to charge a CEO with crimes committed by third parties on the platform he manages is a misguided approach.“Building technology is hard enough as it is. No innovator will ever build new tools if they know they can be personally held responsible for the potential abuse of those tools.”
Admitting that Telegram is not perfect, Durov said French authorities had several ways to get in touch with him and the firm.Telegram allows groups of up to 200,000 members, critics say makes it easier for misinformation and disinformation to spread and for users to share conspiracist, neo-Nazi, paedophilic, or terror-related content.The app, with close to one billion users, is particularly influential in Russia, Ukraine, and the republics of the former Soviet Union.
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