Pavel Durov

AI helps Telegram remove 15 million suspect groups and channels in 2024

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Telegram has been under unprecedented pressure to clean up its platform this year, after its founder Pavel Durov was arrested in France and faces charges over the alleged harmful content shared on his messaging app. After first announcing a crackdown in September, Telegram now says it has removed 15.4 million groups and channels related to […]

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Telegram quietly enables users to report private chats to moderators after founder’s arrest

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Telegram has quietly updated its policy to allow users to report private chats to its moderators following the arrest of founder Pavel Durov in France over “crimes committed by third parties” on the platform.  The messaging app, which serves nearly 1 billion monthly active users, has long maintained a reputation for minimal supervision of user

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Telegram founder’s arrest, and who’s using acqui-hires to tip-toe around antitrust

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On today’s episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Devin Coldeway kicked off our Deals of the Week rundown with Piramidal, a startup that offers a foundational model for analyzing brain scan data and just raised $6 million. The premise behind the company is fascinating — its technology aims to help complement the work of nurses and doctors

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France formally charges Telegram founder, Pavel Durov, over organized crime on messaging app

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After spending four days in police custody, the founder and CEO of messaging app Telegram, Pavel Durov, was put under formal investigation in France on Thursday for a wide range of criminal charges. He was also released from custody on the condition that he does not leave French territory during the investigation. Bail was set

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Telegram founder Pavel Durov reportedly arrested in France

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Pavel Durov, founder and CEO of messaging app Telegram, was arrested on Saturday evening while leaving his private jet at France’s Bourget airport, according to French television network TF1. Reports of Durov’s arrest sparked widespread discussion and speculation on social media, including on Telegram itself, though news reports have been largely based on unnamed police

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Experts say Telegram’s ’30 engineers’ team is a security red flag

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Over the weekend, a clip from a recent interview with Telegram’s founder Pavel Durov went semi-viral on X (previously Twitter). In the video, Durov tells right-wing personality Tucker Carlson that he is the only product manager at the company, and that he only employs “about 30 engineers.”  Security experts say that while Durov was bragging

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