of personally requesting that he censor conservative voices on Telegram ahead of Romania’s presidential election rerun. Durov claimed he rejected the appeal. The controversy comes amid broader ...

the founder and CEO of Telegram, announced on Sunday that he declined a request from a “Western European government” aiming to “silence” conservative channels in Romania as the nation ...

This strategy is part of a broader trend among users concerned about data privacy, censorship ... had requested Telegram to silence conservative political voices in Romania ahead of the country ...

Russia has accused French President Emmanuel Macron of arresting Telegram founder Pavel Durov to meddle in Romania’s 2024 elections. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova claims France acted to ...

Elon Musk has agreed a $300mn deal with Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, to distribute xAI’s Grok chatbot to the messaging app’s 1bn users, in a sign of blossoming partnership between the two ...

A doctored video using Euronews' logo falsely claims Romania cautioned France over interference in the recent presidential ballot. Bucharest has in fact accused Russia of meddling in the vote.View on ...

Telegram is not widely used in Romania, and had recently been used ... Popescu protested that he was for free speech and against censorship. He also mentioned Musk by name, saying Romania had ...

Recently, in the UK, news emerged that the author of a nasty tweet alleged to have incited racial hatred—but which read to ...

Russian officials and propagandists have chosen different strategies for dealing with the unprecedented Ukrainian drone ...

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In his post, Durov initially did not name the Western European country that made the censorship ... “Telegram will not restrict the freedoms of Romanian users or block their political channels,”Durov ...