French Police Have Arrested the Founder of Telegram. What Happens Next Could Change the Course of Big Tech

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French Police Have Arrested the Founder of Telegram. What Happens Next Could Change the Course of Big Tech

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When Pavel Durov arrived in France on his private jet last Saturday, he was greeted by police who promptly arrested him. As the founder of the direct messaging platform Telegram, he was accused of ...

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However, a dispute with how the new owners of the site were operating it led to him leaving the company in 2014.It was shortly before this that Durov created Telegram. This platform provides both the means for communication and exchange as well as the protection of encryption that makes crimes harder to track and tackle than ever before. But that same protection also enables people to resist authoritarian governments that seek to prevent dissent or protest.Durov also has connections with famed tech figures Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, and enjoys broad support in the vocally libertarian tech community. But his platform is no stranger to legal challenges – even in his birth country.An odd targetPavel Durov is in some ways an odd target for French authorities.Meta’s WhatsApp messenger app is also encrypted and boasts three times as many users, while X’s provocations for hate speech and other problematic content are unrepentantly public and increasingly widespread.There is also no suggestion that Durov himself was engaged with making any illegal content. Instead, he is accused of indirectly facilitating illegal content by maintaining the app in the first place.However, Durov’s unique background might go some way to suggest why he was taken in.Unlike other major tech players, he lacks US citizenship. He hails from a country with a chequered past of internet activity – and a diminished diplomatic standing globally thanks to its war against Ukraine.His app is large enough to be a global presence. But simultaneously it is not large enough to have the limitless legal resources of major players such as Meta.Combined, these factors make him a more accessible target to test the enforcement of expanding regulatory frameworks.A question of moderationDurov’s arrest marks another act in the often confusing and contradictory negotiation of how much responsibility platforms shoulder for the content on their sites.These platforms, which include direct messaging platforms such as Telegram and WhatsApp but also broader services such as those offered by Meta’s Facebook and Musk’s X, operate across the globe.As such, they contend with a wide variety of legal environments.This means any restriction put on a platform ultimately affects its services everywhere in the world – complicating and frequently preventing regulation.On one side, there is a push to either hold the platforms responsible for illegal content or to provide details on the users that post it.In Russia, Telegram itself was under pressure to provide names of protesters organising through its app to protest the war against Ukraine.Conversely, freedom of speech advocates have fought against users being banned from platforms. Meanwhile political commentators cry foul of being “censored” for their political views.These contradictions make regulation difficult to craft, while the platforms’ global nature make enforcement a daunting challenge. This challenge tends to play in platforms’ favour, as they can exercise a relatively strong sense of platform sovereignty in how they decide to operate and develop.But these complications can obscure the ways platforms can operate directly as deliberate influencers of public opinion and even publishers of their own content.To take one example, both Google and Facebook took advantage of their central place in the information economy to advertise politically orientated content to resist the development and implementation of Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code.The platforms’ construction also directly influences what content can appear and what content is recommended – and hate speech can mark an opportunity for clicks and screen time.Now, pressure is increasing to hold platforms responsible for how they moderate their users and content. In Europe, recent regulation such as the Media Freedom Act aims to prevent platforms from arbitrarily deleting or banning news producers and their content, while the Digital Services Act requires that these platforms provide mechanisms for removing illegal material.Australia has its own Online Safety Act to prevent harms through platforms, though the recent case involving X reveals that its capacity may be quite limited.The European Union is making content moderation the responsibility of tech platforms. Olivier Hoslet/EPAFuture implicationsDurov is currently only being detained, and it remains to be seen what, if anything, will happen to him in coming days.But if he is charged and successfully prosecuted, it could lay the groundwork for France to take wider actions against not only tech platforms, but also their owners. It could also embolden nations around the world – in the West and beyond – to undertake their own investigations.In turn, it may also make tech platforms think far more seriously about the criminal content they host.Also Read: Who is Pavel Durov, CEO of messaging app Telegram?source: ReutersPavel Durov, billionaire founder and CEO of the Telegram messaging app, was arrested at the Bourget airport outside Paris on Saturday evening, TF1 TV and BFM TV said, citing unidentified sources.TF1 and BFM both said the investigation was focused on a lack of moderators on Telegram, and that police considered that this situation allowed criminal activity to go on undeterred on the messaging app.Telegram did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. The French Interior Ministry and police had no comment. Russia, which has in the past tried to ban Telegram, said it was taking steps to \"clarify\" Durov's situation.What is known about Durov and Telegram:* Russian-born Durov, 39, is founder and owner of messaging app Telegram, a free to use platform that competes with other social media platforms such as Facebook's WhatsApp, or Instagram, TikTok and Wechat. The platform aims to surpass one billion active monthly users within a year.* Telegram is influential in Russia, Ukraine and the republics of the former Soviet Union. It has become a critical source of information on Russia's war in Ukraine, used heavily by both Moscow and Kyiv officials. Some analysts call the app \"a virtual battlefield\" for the war.* Durov, whose fortune was estimated by Forbes at $15.5 billion, left Russia in 2014 after refusing to comply with government demands to shut down opposition communities on his VKontakte social media platform, which he sold.* Durov became a French citizen in August 2021. 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