The Telegram CEO who was recently arrested in France back in August was charged on the grounds of enabling criminal activity on Telegram. Some of these illegal activities include money laundering, cyberbullying, and the circulation of deep fake porn and Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM). Drug trafficking and fraud also took place on the platform but Telegram turned a blind eye to these activities.

Despite government pressure to moderate content and disclose data, Durov remained his ground in the name of free speech. The French President, Emmanuel Macron even had to put out a statement regarding the nature of his arrest. Macron claimed that Durov’s arrest was not for political reasons.

New Telegram Features: What the new features do

Taking into account everything that has happened in the past few weeks, Durov has stated that Telegram will be bringing in new features. These new Telegram features come as a result of the criticisms and backlash the platform has received over the lack of content moderation.

Features that had been previously known to be abused by anonymous and malicious users have been disabled. New media uploads to the Telegraph standalone blogging tool have thus been disabled. This feature was once notorious for being misused by anonymous actors.

Telegram has also removed features that are not as commonly used by its user base. For instance, the app has removed the People Nearby feature which has been known to contain issues with scammers as well as bots. Business Nearby has instead taken its place. This new feature shows verified and legit businesses.

Telegram will be turning a new leaf and Durov’s arrest is the glaring catalyst for this new chapter for Telegram.

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Telegram’s CEO and founder, Pavel Durov, was arrested in France while departing from a private jet. TF1 has confirmed that Durov’s arrest took place on Saturday.

There has been a lot of speculation regarding Pavel Durov’s arrest, especially in online spaces. However, French authorities have reported the lack of moderation, which ultimately led to the messaging platform turning a blind eye to the illegal activities within the app.

Pavel Durov and the reasons for this arrest

Pavel Durov will be facing charges over enabling criminal activities on Telegram and some of these crimes include, drug trafficking, fraud, money laundering, cyberbullying and CSAM (child sexual abuse material).

Durov has been resisting pressure and orders from governments globally in the name of free speech. Such governments have been applying pressure on the Telegram CEO to moderate content and disclose data. Due to his continued residence against censorship, Pavel Durov has been championed as a free speech defender.

The Russian-born CEO previously fled from his home country after declining the government’s order to disclose information about protest leaders from Ukraine from his social network, Vkontakte. After feeling Russia, Durov settled down in Dubai which is where Telegram runs from.

Telegram has issued a statement declaring that the platform abides by the laws of the European Union. The platform has marked the claim that an owner of a platform is responsible for the happenings within the app as ‘absurd’. Telegram is thus awaiting a resolution to the ongoing situation.

French President, Emmanuel Macron has also made a few statements to curb the spread of false information on the matter. Macron says that Pavel Durov’s arrest was not politically motivated. Instead, he claims the arrest is part of an ‘ongoing judicial investigation’

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