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EU officials believe Telegram lied about user numbers to skirt regulation
The EU believes that Telegram may have deliberately understated the number of users it has in the bloc to avoid stricter regulation.
Not only is Telegram CEO Pavel Durov facing criminal charges in France, the company he founded could be in hot water with the European Union as well. The Joint Research Centre — a department of the European Commission, the EU's executive branch — is conducting a technical investigation in an attempt to determine Telegram's true user numbers in the bloc. The Telegram CEO, who obtained French citizenship a few years ago, is required to stay in France and check in at a police station twice weekly until the investigation is concluded.
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