Telegram founder Pavel Durov rejected French intelligence's request to censor conservative content before Romania's election, ...

"Telegram will not restrict the freedoms of Romanian users or block their political channels," Durov said, adding an emoji of a baguette that implied it was France. The French foreign ministry ...

Durov said in a social media post late on May 18, voting day in the election that pitted centrist Nicusor Dan against ultranationalist George Simion, that Nicolas Lerner, the head of French ...

ButFrench President Emmanuel Macron said in a statement posted to X on Monday that Durov’s arrest was “in no way a political decision.” “I’m reading false information about France ...

Telegram founder Pavel Durov said he rejected pressure from a European Union (EU) country to censor political content on the social media platform ahead of the May 18 presidential elections in ...

FILE PHOTO: Founder and CEO of Telegram Pavel Durov delivers a keynote speech during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona ...

French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday said the decision to bring charges against Durov was “in no way political,” a rare intervention by a French leader into a judicial matter.

Pavel Durov’s recent statements on political pressures In conjunction with the contest announcement, Pavel Durov addressed additional political pressures Telegram faces globally. On his Telegram ...

Pavel Durov, the founder of the app ... broke into his apartment in an effort to force him to take down opposition political material on Vkontakte. More recently, he abandoned plans to issue ...

The crypto community strongly supports Durov's decision to dismiss a Western European government’s request to censor ...