Telegram CEO Pavel Durov has criticized the French authorities for his arrest last year on accusations that the company’s insufficient content moderation led to serious criminal activity. A year later, Durov has called the charges leveled by French authorities “legally and logically absurd.”
“One year ago, the French police detained me for 4 days because some people I’d never heard of used Telegram to coordinate crimes. Arresting a CEO of a major platform over the actions of its users was not only unprecedented — it was legally and logically…








