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Telegram Founder Pavel Durov Charged Over Alleged Criminal Activity on the App
After four days in the custody of French police, the head of the social media messaging app has been charged with complicity in spreading sexual images of children and other alleged crimes.
The Telegram founder had was placed under formal investigation for a range of charges related to child sexual abuse material, drug trafficking, online hate crimes as well as a “neat-total absence” of cooperation with French authorities, Laure Beccuau, the Paris Prosecutor, said on Wednesday. Under his leadership, the platform was dogged by allegations it was sharing data with the Kremlin, even as Durov appeared to publicly clash with Russian authorities over the political content VK was hosting. “Today, however, this theory is on its way to becoming the mainstream scientific view of how the virus originated,” Durov said, linking to an opinion article in the Wall Street Journal headlined: “ The Science Suggests a Wuhan Lab Leak.
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