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Telegram CEO breaks silence after arrest


He says Telegram will step up moderation.

A while ago, when asked, I personally helped them establish a hotline with Telegram to deal with the threat of terrorism in France. Using laws from the pre-smartphone era to charge a CEO with crimes committed by third parties on the platform he manages is a misguided approach. Telegram’s abrupt increase in user count to 950M caused growing pains that made it easier for criminals to abuse our platform.

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