The arrest of Telegram’s founder, and what it means for social media

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🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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The arrest of Telegram’s founder and CEO in Paris last month has thrown the spotlight on the messaging app and its approach to content moderation. Madeleine Finlay hears from Russian affairs reporter Pjotr Sauer and technology journalist Alex Hern about how the case could influence how social media companies approach problematic content on their platforms. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod

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0:00.0	This is the Guardian.
0:09.0	Hello, I'm on holiday this week.
0:10.0	I'm on holiday this week scuba diving in the Caribbean.
0:16.0	I'm going to be underwater most of the time,
0:20.0	so if you want me you might have to learn whale.
0:25.0	Hmm.
0:28.0	Yours Lucy. Take your holiday. O'
0:35.0	yours Lucy. Take your holiday as seriously as British Airways
0:37.0	take your holiday.
0:38.0	At or protected.
0:40.0	On the evening of Saturday the 24th of August, the CEO of messaging app telegram,
0:49.0	think WhatsApp combined with Twitter, stepped off his private jet near Paris and discovered French authorities
0:56.1	were waiting.
0:57.1	French authorities have arrested Russian-born billionaire Pvel Dorov.
1:01.8	Durov is the CEO of messaging app, telegram.
1:06.0	His arrest was part of an investigation into cybercrime relating to illicit transactions,
1:11.7	child sexual abuse and fraud on the app, and refusal
1:16.4	to communicate information to authorities.
1:20.2	Pavel Durov has been charged with enabling various forms of criminality on the platform.
1:24.4	He's been released on a 5 million euro bail but he has to stay in France.
1:29.8	The arrest has thrown the spotlight onto Durov himself, an eccentric character.
1:35.0	He's quite obsessed with Kiano Reeves's character, Neo, in Matrix.
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