Kyle Chayka writes about the recent arrest of Telegram’s founder, Pavel Durov, and potential future attempts to more tightly regulate social-media platforms.
Telegram , founded in 2013, combines the features of a messaging app and a social network, with broadcasting functions that allow users to reach hundreds of thousands of people at once. The app has developed a reputation for robust privacy and security, reflecting values that Durov has often promoted on X, where he has more than two and a half million followers.
The Russian military’s dependence on Telegram as a crucial part of its communications infrastructure would seem to have changed the government’s attitude toward its founder: Durov left Russia in 2014, after the Federal Security Service reportedly pressured him to sell his stake in his first social-network company. Now the Russian government is loudly decrying his arrest.
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