Europa Press

The newspaper La Jornada
Monday, August 26, 2024, p. 30

Madrid. The messaging platform Telegram assured last night that it complies with the laws of the European Union (EU), after its founder and general director, Pavel Durov, was arrested at the French airport of Le Bourget for refusing to moderate content related to minors on the social network. It is absurd to claim that a platform or its owner is responsible for abuse.he said in a statement. He stressed that it has almost a billion users worldwide. French justice accuses Telegram of being a potential ally in the commission of crimes of fraud, against minors or drug trafficking, among others, given the tools it offers. The businessman, also founder of the Russian social media platform VKontakte and who has French and Emirati citizenship, was dismissed as general director of this latter social network, after refusing to collaborate with the main Russian security agency, the FSB, when it asked him for information on groups opposed to the Kremlin.