Telegram CEO speaks, denies app is ‘anarchic paradise’

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Telegram CEO speaks, denies app is ‘anarchic paradise’

Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov is promising stepped-up efforts to ****** criminality on the messaging app, his first public comments since French authorities handed him preliminary charges for allegedly allowing the platform’s use for ********* activity.

In a Telegram post, Durov defended himself against the French judicial investigation, suggesting that he personally should not have been targeted.

“Using laws from the pre-smartphone era to charge a CEO with ******* committed by third parties on the platform he manages is a misguided approach,” the post said.

“Building technology is hard enough as it is. No innovator will ever build new tools if they know they can be personally held responsible for potential ****** of those tools.”

While insisting that Telegram is not “some sort of anarchic paradise”, Durov said surging numbers of Telegram users “caused growing pains that made it easier for ********** to ****** our platform”.

“That’s why I made it my personal goal to ensure we significantly improve things in this regard.

“We’ve already started that process internally, and I will share more details on our progress with you very soon,” he said.

Durov, born in Russia but now a French national, was detained in late August in France amid an investigation into ******* related to child ************, ***** trafficking and fraudulent transactions associated with the app.

He said the investigation into the app was surprising in that French authorities had access to a “hotline” he had helped set up and they could have contacted Telegram’s EU representative at any time.

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