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At this stage, the only person being questioned in this case is Pavel Durov,
the prosecutor’s office added An online platform of that importance with that large user base, even if it isn’t officially designated a VLOP, is just way too important in order to operate with that level of opaqueness,
If there is such a big problem with content moderation that it is actually criminally relevant … why hasn’t that been addressed under the DSA yet
said Jan Penfrat at the European Digital Rights group (EDRi), a coalition of NGOs It is purely a criminal investigation at national level, carried out by the French authorities … based on French criminal law,
We are now checking whether the figure is right,
It is encouraging to see the French government, French police, taking some action to potentially rectify this type of activity,
Moderators use a combination of proactive monitoring of public parts of the platform, AI tools, and user reports to remove content that breaches Telegram’s terms of service,
Telegram’s moderation practices are completely opaque — we really have no sense of how they operate. Likewise, we receive no confirmation or feedback from the company on the moderation outcome when we do report content into them. More importantly, it does not appear the platform itself is taking adequate proactive steps to curb the spread of CSAM on their service despite its known use for facilitating the exchange of this type of material,
They’ve been really, really clear on the team that they have no interest. We sporadically reach out, but it’s not frequent anymore,
Telegram is truly in a league of their own as far as their lack of content moderation or even interest in preventing child sexual exploitation activity on their platform,
Based on our observations, Telegram’s platform is increasingly being used to make CSAM available to offenders. In many cases, we see Telegram links or accounts advertised on web forums and even on U.S.-based mainstream social media platforms that act as a funnel to drive traffic to illegal Telegram-based content,
Do you think this time they'll appeal to Paris and demand Durov's release?"
Everyone who is used to using the platform for sensitive conversations should delete those conversations right now and never do it again,
warned Kremlin propagandist Simonyan in a Telegram post They practically detained the head of communications for the Russian army,
lamented the popular Russian military blogger channel, Povernutie na Z Voine, in a Telegram post It would be both quite sad and somewhat amusing if Durov’s arrest turned out to be the catalyst for changes in communication within the Russian armed forces,
I do not consider Pavel Durov to be a criminal and I hope he will be able to prove his innocence in court,
Yashin wrote on X on Monday They require a no less serious basis of evidence. Otherwise they will be a direct attempt to limit freedom of communication,
The accusations are very serious indeed, and they require an equally serious basis of evidence,
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said at his press briefing Tuesday according to news agency Interfax Purging communications is utter stupidity. Officials should not use messengers for official purposes. No messenger is reliable in terms of information security — not even Telegram. […] Therefore, of course, no one is asking anyone to clean anything,
In other words, it would be exactly the politics that Mr. Macron denied yesterday in this story,