{"id":179187,"date":"2024-08-29T18:01:25","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T17:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/who-is-the-russian-billionaire-founder-of-telegram\/"},"modified":"2024-08-29T18:01:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T17:01:25","slug":"who-is-the-russian-billionaire-founder-of-telegram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/who-is-the-russian-billionaire-founder-of-telegram\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is the Russian billionaire founder of Telegram?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/GMh-_LB87k8\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Who is the Russian billionaire founder of Telegram?\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GMh-_LB87k8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>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. In a statement on Sunday, Telegram said it abided by European Union laws and that its moderation was &#8216;within industry standards and constantly improving&#8217;. &#8216;Telegram\u2019s CEO, Pavel Durov, has nothing to hide and travels frequently in Europe,&#8217; it said. &#8216;It is absurd to claim that a platform, or its owner, are responsible for abuse of that platform.&#8217;<br \/>\nDurov, also known as the &#8216;Russian Mark Zuckerberg&#8217; for having founded a similar platform to Zuckerberg\u2019s 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&#8217;s arrest for the tech sector <\/p>\n<p> Telegram CEO charged in France for \u2018allowing criminal activity\u2019 on messaging app<br \/>\n What the Telegram founder\u2019s arrest means for the regulation of social media firms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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