It's the Brian Laris show on WNYC. Good morning again, everyone.

Now take a look at a global issue that's relevant here locally as well, and that's taken the tech world by storm.

Did you hear that last month French authorities detained Pavelle Dourov, the Russian founder

of Telegram, a Dubai-based messaging app with 900 million users across the world?

The arrest took both Durov and tech moguls from other companies by surprise,

sparking debates about free speech and whether it's even right to hold CEOs responsible for crimes

committed on their apps. In a series of posts on his platform X, for example, Elon Musk came to

the defense of Durao using the hashtag free Pavel on a video of, quote,

Duraev praising Musk and his pro free speech outlook during an interview with Tucker Carlson earlier this year, per business insider.

But why was Duraev detained?

What is the free speech taking place on Telegram that resulted in the billionaire's

arrest?

Well, an investigation conducted by reporters at the Wall Street Journal found, quote, pedophile

rings, identity thieves, and drug traffickers using the app as a shop window to sell

their wares, unquote. Furthermore, Telegram has caused somewhat of a national crisis in South Korea.

Maybe some of our Korean-American listeners you know about this, where countless chat rooms

containing photos of

everyday women deep faked into pornographic material have made national headlines. Again, in South

Korea, analysis published by the cybersecurity company's security hero last year found South

Koreans had the most deep fakes created in their likeness.

53% of all deep fake videos reviewed, followed by Americans, 20%.

And while we've seen reports of cyberbullying like this in high schools here in the United

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