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Telegram's founder Pavel Durov onstage at TC Disrupt

Telegram founder Pavel Durov says app now has 1B users, calls WhatsApp a ‘cheap, watered down imitation’

March 19, 2025

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Telegram founder Pavel Durov said today that the service now has more than 1 billion active users. This number is ...

Pavel Durov, CEO and co-founder of Telegram speaks onstage during day one of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2015 at Pier 70 on September 21, 2015 in San Francisco, California.

Telegram founder, Pavel Durov, allowed to leave France — despite ongoing criminal investigation

March 17, 2025

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Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of messaging app Telegram, no longer has to stay in France. A source told ...

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Inside a Global Online Hate Network

March 17, 2025

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On Jan. 19, 2024, the sheriff of Jacksonville, Florida, released a 27-page manifesto left behind by Ryan Palmeter, a 21-year-old ...

Pavel Durov, chief executive officer of Telegram, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016. Durov was detained in France, on Saturday, Aug. 24, 2024, over claims that the messaging service failed to properly fight crime on the app.

After Founder’s Arrest, Telegram Began Sharing Info on Thousands More Users With Police

January 8, 2025

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Since changing its policies in response to the arrest of its founder last year, the messaging app Telegram has vastly ...