The founder of the Dubai-based messaging platform,

Telegram just arrested in Paris this weekend over content moderation policies.

The app has long faced scrutiny for enabling cyber criminals and extremism.

For today's Check-Check, Deja Bosa covers the implementation. cyber criminals and extremism.

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Hey, good morning, Sima.

So this is a very big story in tech circles.

Some are calling it an attack on free speech. This is a very big story in tech circles.

Some are calling it an attack on free speech.

Others are seeing it as accountability for social media.

President, French President Emanuel Macron, he just put out the statement on the arrest saying that it was not a political decision, but an ongoing investigation.

Telegram in a statement says that it abides by EU laws and moderation within industry standards but guys let me step back for a moment

because telegram I want to tell you what it is it is one of the world's

largest messaging apps with nearly a billion users it is also a key

communication tool in places like Russia, Ukraine, and

India where people can get independent news and exchange views in huge group chats. Some of

those messages are encrypted meaning that they cannot be monitored by the company itself or law enforcement and that makes it a powerful place for sensitive info including illicit activity.

We're going to have more on that in a moment, but its founder, Paul

Dura, he's a Russian-born billionaire and he has said that his North Star in

creating the app and other apps before it is to let people express their

freedom.

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