Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of the messaging app Telegram, was arrested at an airport just outside Paris, France, on Saturday.
French police had an arrest warrant for Durov and moved to arrest him after seeing he was on a passenger list for a flight coming from Azerbaijan, according to Reuters.
Durov, a 39-year-old tech billionaire who has been referred to as the “Mark Zuckerberg of Russia” after founding a Russian Facebook alternative called Vkontakte, was arrested as part of an investigation into Telegram’s lack of content moderation and the platform’s role in allegedly enabling criminal activity, according to the Washington Post.
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Telegram is popular in Russia, Ukraine, and other Eastern European countries, and has nearly 1 billion users. However, it is also used
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