Russian-born billionaire detained last month in France denies app is ‘anarchic
paradise’
The founder of the Telegram messaging app, Pavel Durov, under investigation in
France, has said that French authorities should have approached his company with
their complaints rather than detaining him, calling the arrest ‘“misguided”.
Durov, writing on his Telegram channel early on Friday in his first public
comments since his detention last month, denied any suggestion the app was an
“anarchic paradise”.
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Tag - Russia
Pavel Durov will probably use French legal disputes to position himself as a
champion of free speech, say observers
When Pavel Durov came under criticism from Russian regulators over the spread of
pornography on the VKontakte social media platform he founded, the tech
entrepreneur responded mockingly by changing his Twitter handle from “VK CEO” to
“Porn King”.
More than a decade later, Durov’s anti-authoritarian stance and hands-off
approach to moderation have landed him in more serious trouble.
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On Saturday 24 April, the billionaire founder of the Telegram social media and
messaging app, Pavel Durov, was arrested by French authorities as he disembarked
from his private jet in Paris on his way from Azerbaijan. Officials said the
arrest was part of a cybercrime inquiry into criminal activity on the platform
and a lack of cooperation with law enforcement. Durov has since been formally
charged.
Durov, also known as the 'Russian Mark Zuckerberg' for having founded a similar
platform to Zuckerberg’s Facebook in Russia called VKontakte, is a self-styled
champion of free speech and has cultivated a reputation for being unwilling to
work with authorities to censor and more closely control what happens on his
platform. But his arrest has raised important questions about the extent to
which tech executives are responsible for how users employ their social media
networks. Chris Stokel-Walker, a technology journalist, explains the
implications of Durov's arrest for the tech sector
* Telegram CEO charged in France for ‘allowing criminal activity’ on messaging
app
* What the Telegram founder’s arrest means for the regulation of social media
firms
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Pavel Durov, who has French citizenship, faces prosecution over alleged failure
to suppress spread of sexual images of children and calls for violence
The head of Telegram, Pavel Durov, has been charged by the French judiciary for
allegedly allowing criminal activity on the messaging app but avoided jail with
a €5m bail.
The Russian-born multi-billionaire, who has French citizenship, was granted
release on condition that he report to a police station twice a week and remain
in France, Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said in a statement.
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Once nicknamed the ‘Russian Zuckerberg’, Durov has boasted of being the
biological father of more than 100 children
The Russian-born tech entrepreneur Pavel Durov has founded wildly popular social
networks as well as a cryptocurrency, amassed a multibillion dollar fortune and
locked horns with authorities in Russia and around the world.
Still a few months shy of his 40th birthday, the man once nicknamed the “Russian
Zuckerberg” after the Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg now finds himself under
arrest in France after being detained at a Paris airport this weekend.
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New Meta security report finds that AI-powered deception campaigns ‘provide only
incremental’ results for bad actors
Russia is putting generative artificial intelligence to work in online deception
campaigns, but its efforts have been unsuccessful, according to a Meta security
report released on Thursday.
The parent company of Facebook and Instagram found that so far AI-powered
tactics “provide only incremental productivity and content-generation gains” for
bad actors and Meta has been able to disrupt deceptive influence operations.
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State-sponsored hacking campaigns are evolving in social engineering strategies
and technical aspects
Russia’s state security agency is launching increasingly sophisticated phishing
attacks against US, European and Russian civil society members, in some cases by
impersonating individuals who are personally close to the targets of the
attacks, according to a new investigation by security researchers.
A new report by the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto and Access Now
comes as the FBI has separately launched an investigation into suspected hacking
attempts by Iran targeting an adviser to Donald Trump and advisers to the
Harris-Walz campaign.
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