US government-funded censorship arm ‘Atlantic Council’ targeted Telegram just two months before Durov’s arrest

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Breaking News: US Government-Funded Censorship Unit ‘Atlantic Council’ Targeted Telegram Just Two Months Before Durov’s Arrest

Revolver^

Posted on 2024-08-30 07:30:56 PDT Through Tench_Coxe

French authorities arrested Russian-born dual UAE-French citizen Pavel Durov over the weekend as he stepped off his private jet in Paris. Durov, who is the CEO and founder of popular messaging app Telegram, faces a number of serious charges from French authorities, ranging from drug offences to child sexual exploitation.

Of course, none of the charges directly relate to Durov, but rather refer to activity that allegedly took place on Telegram, Durov’s privacy-focused messaging app with nearly 1 billion active users. The charging documents do not specify what exactly French authorities are alleging about Durov’s guilt, and French President Emmanuel Macron took to X (formerly Twitter) to assure the public that the arrest was not “political.”

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Suspicions about the timing and possible US complicity in Durov’s arrest are fueled by a DFR Lab-sponsored conference that criticized Telegram’s refusal to censor information related to the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

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As if it wasn’t suspicious enough that the Atlantic Council is funded by US government intelligence agencies, the Atlantic Council was also infamously funded by notorious Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Pinchuk (more on that below). Thus we see the convenient timing that two months after the Atlantic Council (US government censorship cutout) exposes Telegram’s problematic refusal to censor information in the Ukraine war, Durov is arrested in France. Funny how that works!

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