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Telegram CEO Pavel Durov pledges crackdown on illegal activity and better content moderation
Pavel Durov, the Russian founder of the popular messaging app Telegram, told an initial court hearing in December that the platform was taking steps to improve its content moderation and to crackdown on illegal activity, radio station France Info has revealed.
Pavel Durov, the Russian founder of the popular messaging app Telegram, told an initial court hearing in December that the platform was taking steps to improve its content moderation and to crackdown on illegal activity, radio station France Info has revealed. Durov also told judges that Telegram had actively cooperated with law enforcement and had handed over the data of 10,000 of its users to the authorities in a number of countries over the past six months. Durov was detained at Paris’s Le Bourget Airport in late August and charged with administering a platform where illicit financial transactions were carried out, for failure to provide information to the authorities concerning people being sought by the law, complicity in the distribution of child pornography, drug trafficking, organised crime and conspiracy to commit crimes, money laundering, and offering encryption services without the required legal permits.
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