The founder of encrypted messaging service Telegram has been detained in France as part of an investigation into a lack of moderation and criminal use of the platform.
The founder of encrypted messaging service Telegram has been detained in France over the weekend as part of an investigation into a lack of moderation and criminal use of the platform.
The service currently has 900 million active monthly users and has positioned itself as a more secure alternative to US-owned platforms including Telegram has become hugely popular partly due to the ease of viewing and posting videos on its messaging "channels", but critics accuse it of hosting often illegal content ranging from extreme sexual imagery, disinformation, and services for buying drugs, veiled behind a pro-privacy rhetoric.But Steven Feldstein, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, says Telegram "occupies a complicated position in the ecosystem", with both upsides and downsides.
"On the flip side, Telegram occupies a pretty important niche when it comes to allowing for criticism against authoritarian regimes, when it comes to being a place where you have unlikely conversations occurring." "Telegram abides by EU laws, including the Digital Services Act — its moderation is within industry standards and constantly improving," the company said in a statement."Telegram's CEO Pavel Durov has nothing to hide and travels frequently in Europe … it is absurd to claim that a platform or its owner are responsible for abuse of that platform."
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