Hello from the FT newsroom. Pavel Durov, chief executive of the messaging service Telegram, was arrested at a Parisian airport after arriving on his private jet last weekend; French authorities claim he has failed to adequately moderate criminal activity on his company’s platform. Yesterday he was placed under formal investigation by a French judge and is barred from leaving the country.
It is the most drastic national action against a social media chief to date. Moscow quickly claimed that the arrest of the Russia-born billionaire was political — the Russian foreign minister has described relations with Paris as being at an “all-time low” as a result.
Durov spent the past decade trying to avoid government scrutiny, but that has backfired. How did he get the calculation so spectacularly wrong?
Pavel Durov has been placed under formal investigation by a French judge and is barred from leaving the country
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6 个月An estimated 19,000 children have lost one or both parents during 10 months of bitter conflict in Gaza. The scale of loss is entirely different to previous conflicts. “It’s incomprehensible how society is going to be able to grapple with this,” a Save the Children professional told the Financial Times.
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6 个月woooooheeeee starting me morning with this news ---- I got work to do
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6 个月I like Telegram’s attempts to remain independent from government surveillance and large corporation data harvesting… Julius Assange, Edward Snowden, and now Pavel Durov… US killed the TON project and now France wants the keys to the back door of Telegram It's a sad week for advocates like myself of the Right to Privacy in the digital age. The risk of any government’s or large cooperation’s Abuse of Power in the name of ‘good’ or ‘bad’ will always exist.
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6 个月Bom dia desejo sucesso e um bom de semana.