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America 24 posted an update
2 months ago (edited)
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov says French intelligence wanted telegram to Censor Moldovan channels for the elections:
“About a year ago, while I was stuck in Paris, the French intelligence services reached out to me through an intermediary, asking me to help the Moldovan government censor certain Telegram channels ahead of the presidential elections in Moldova.
The intermediary then informed me that, in exchange for this cooperation, French intelligence would ‘say good things’ about me to the judge who had ordered my arrest in August last year.
This was unacceptable on several levels… it constituted an attempt to interfere in the judicial process. If it did not, and merely claimed to have done so, then it was exploiting my legal situation in France to influence political developments in Eastern Europe.
Shortly thereafter, the Telegram team received a second list of so-called ‘problematic’ Moldovan channels… Their only commonality was that they voiced political positions disliked by the French and Moldovan governments. We refused to act on this request.”
– CEO Pavel Durov Post:
https://x.com/America24News_/status/1972310794894520761
https://x.com/durov/status/1972263703149002980
