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Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of the Telegram messaging app, has claimed that the head of France’s foreign intelligence agency asked him to ban Romanian conservatives ahead of the country’s elections, a request he says he refused.

Pavel Durov, the CEO of popular messaging app Telegram, has publicly addressed his recent arrest in Paris, calling the French authorities’ approach “misguided” and expressing surprise at being held personally responsible for illegal activities on his platform.

Elon Musk says it’s “probably wise” for him “to limit” his travels to areas where free speech is “constitutionally protected.” The X owner’s comments come after Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was arrested in France in connection to a “lack of moderation” on his messaging app.

Pavel Durov, the founder of the popular messaging app Telegram, has found himself in the crosshairs of multiple governments, even as some have attempted to court him.

Alexander Vindman seems clear: If Pavel Durov can be arrested for his management of Telegram, Elon Musk can be for his management of X.

Alexander Vindman issued X owner Elon Musk a warning following the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov, saying he “should be nervous.”

Telegram, the popular messaging app known for its largely hands-off approach to moderation, has responded to the arrest of its CEO and founder, Pavel Durov, by French authorities outside of Paris.

Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro announced on Monday that he would “break ties” with WhatsApp, effectively declaring it illegal.

An Israeli hacker group called “We Red Evils Original” took credit on Thursday for causing widespread wi-fi outages in Iran.

China has reportedly ordered Apple to remove WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram, among other popular messaging apps, from its iPhone app store in order to comply with the Chinese Communist Party’s censorship demand.

In a recent interview with Tucker Carlson, Pavel Durov, the founder of the popular messaging app Telegram, accused tech giants Google and Apple of being the real enemies of free speech on the internet.

The Kremlin denies a rumor that President Vladimir Putin was recently crippled by a stroke and replaced with a body double.

Social media linked to Russia’s Wagner Group is circulating a video in which Yevgeny Prigozhin discusses rumors of his impending death.

Two Chinese actresses named Zhang Xinyu and Zhao Lusi, plus a talk show host named Jin Xing, were doxxed this week – meaning private information such as their national ID and phone numbers was exposed – because they spoke out against animal abuse.

The United States has launched a social media campaign aimed at recruiting spies from Russia, reports on Monday have suggested.

A court in the Espirito Santo state of Brazil on Wednesday ordered a temporary suspension of the secure messaging platform Telegram because it refused to provide information about neo-Nazi groups that allegedly used Telegram posts to incite violence in schools.

Multiple newspapers in Brazil reported on Friday that the Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE), the nation’s top election authority, had spent much of the week working to dismantle conservative chat groups on Whatsapp and Telegram in an attempt to “demobilize” massive nationwide roadblocks and protests.

The German federal state is operating hundreds of fake far-right social media accounts online, a mainstream newspaper in the country has revealed.

A report conducted by a number of think tanks has found that so-called “disinformation” had little effect on recent elections in France.

Messaging and social networking app Telegram, which has built a reputation for guarding users from invasive government surveillance and censorship, appears to be buckling under official pressure, shutting down two dissident channels in Hong Kong following threats from regulators.

Miliary-grade weaponry in Ukraine is allegedly being sold on to international buyers on the encrypted messaging app Telegram, including some hardware made in the United States.

Members of the Islamic State terrorist group have celebrated the ongoing conflict between the Russian Federation and Ukraine, expressing hope the war will spread to other European countries.

Germany’s Minister for the Interior, Nancy Faeser has reportedly backtracked on previous threats she made against the popular messenger app Telegram

Over the past week or so, millions of people have migrated to Google, Facebook, and Twitter alternatives. It’s only a beginning, but hopefully the beginning of something big and permanent.

The privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo has surpassed 100 million daily search queries for the first time ever, marking a major milestone in the site’s 12-year-old history. The site’s surging daily activity comes as a wave of consumers embrace alternatives to the Masters of the Universe, including messaging services like Signal and Telegram, and social media platforms such as Gab.

Tech giant Apple is reportedly being sued by a Washington nonprofit group in federal court that is demanding that the company remove the encrypted messaging app Telegram from its app store.

The messaging service WhatsApp has reportedly delayed an upcoming privacy change that it claims caused “confusion” amongst users who believe that the app would be sharing more data, including their messages, with parent company Facebook.

Facebook’s WhatsApp messaging app has suffered a major drop in new downloads as many users turn to private messaging apps Signal and Telegram following changes to WhatsApp’s terms of service.

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko on Tuesday vowed to stand strong in the face of mounting resistance to his long-established leftist dictatorship. He told Russian media that he has no intention of stepping down as president despite continued protests over the past month demanding he resign.

China’s state-run Global Times reported approvingly on Thursday that Hong Kong has been forced to suppress countless movies, television shows, books, and online posts that could violate the new security law imposed by Beijing because the material could be judged to “threaten” Communist China, and those who display or sell the “threatening” material could be held legally liable.

The encrypted messaging service Telegram said on Sunday that it will temporarily refuse user data requests from Hong Kong courts due to the turmoil from the national security law imposed by Beijing.

Iran has sentenced an opposition journalist to death after he reported on the damage Tehran’s belligerent international positions brought to the nation’s economy, the Iranian state-controlled PressTV reported Tuesday.

TEL AVIV – Far-right antisemitism is an “an urgent and ongoing terror threat to Jewish communities,” a top Jewish group in the UK has found.

The Islamic State still had not responded to the death of its “caliph,” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as of Wednesday afternoon. The ISIS news agency Amaq took little notice of al-Baghdadi’s demise, while “chatter” in jihadi social media networks is reportedly subdued.

The socialist government of Spain is trying to clamp down on ‘Tsunami Democràtic’, the Catalan separatist group that has taken inspiration from the pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong and was behind the mass protests earlier this week at the El Prat Airport in Barcelona.

Encrypted messaging platform Telegram revealed a massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) cyberattack targeting it for the past few days, perhaps not coincidentally beginning at the same time as the latest protest in Hong Kong against an extradition law favored by mainland China.