Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov on Sunday said that he refused a request by a “Western European government” to “silence” conservative channels in Romania, as the country undertakes a ...

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 ...

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 ...

France denied Pavel Durov’s claim that its intelligence agency sought to censor conservative Romanian voices on Telegram ahead of Sunday’s presidential election, however, admitting that it did meet ...

The founder of the Telegram messaging app said on Sunday he had refused a request by a Western government, which he did not name but appeared to imply was France, to silence conservative voices in ...

The timing raised concern, as Romania was amid a ... Critics said France pressured Telegram to force the app to implement tighter controls and more censorship. The chief executive of Helius ...

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 Western European government... approached Telegram, asking us to silence conservative voices in Romania ahead of today's presidential elections. I flatly refused," Durov wrote on Telegram.

"A Western European government... approached Telegram, asking us to silence conservative voices in Romania ahead of today's presidential elections. I flatly refused," founder Pavel Durov wrote on ...