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Continuing the growing controversy over the application, South Korea has joined the growing list of nations now investigating Telegram. The country is reportedly launching a probe into its distribution of illicit content. It has become one of many nations investigating the platform. In late August, Telegram CEO and founder Pavel Durov was arrested by French officials. That arrest was due to an ongoing investigation for similar activities. Those authorities claimed that the application was used for drug and child abuse content trafficking. Their actions have inspired similar activity from other jurisdictions. Also Read: UAE Ask French Officials for Access to Telegram CEO Pavel Durov South Korea Follows France, Launches Telegram Investigation It has been an up-and-down year for Telegram. The app became a vital player in the crypto sector. The Open Network, the platform’s layer-1 blockchain proved to be highly successful. It drove massive investments into its native Toncoin (TON) tok...

The community behind layer-1 blockchain The Open Network (TON) is rallying behind the messaging platform Telegram’s founder, Pavel Durov, who is currently detained in France. French authorities arrested Durov at the Le Bourget Airport last weekend on a warrant related to Telegram’s alleged failure to moderate content linked to drugs, fraud and other criminal activities. In a post on social media platform X, the TON Society is asking the public to support an initiative to free Durov by signing an open letter urging France to release the 39-year-old. “Anyone who values privacy and freedom of speech should sign this letter to French authorities. We hope to reach hundreds of millions of signatures. We urge the French authorities to Free Mr. Pavel Durov from detention.  Allow Telegram to protect the freedom of expression and right to private life for its users. The #DigitalResistance is now. #FREEDUROV.” The open letter says the arrest is a blatant attack on ...

When French authorities arrested Telegram founder Pavel Durov after his attempted meeting with Vladimir Putin, conspiracy theories spread like wildfire. Andrew Tate was early to spin the news in his favor, writing on X (formerly Twitter), “The owner of Telegram, Pavel Durov, has just been arrested in France for failing to censor the truth on his application. “Potential charges include support for terrorism, drug trafficking, complicity in crimes, mass fraud, money laundering, concealment, pedophile content, sanctions evasion, and more.” Others soon re-posted his non-falsifiable dog whistle, earning it millions of impressions and hundreds of thousands of likes. Mischaracterizations of Durov’s arrest proliferated. Fans of Durov, casting the billionaire as a bulwark of privacy and free speech, immediately posited that authorities were leveraging his arrest to coerce him to install backdoors in Telegram for governmental monitors. Of course, this theory assumes that ...

The Toncoin price plunged 15% in the last 24 hours to trade at $5.719 as of 10:00 p.m. EST on trading volume that skyrocketed 438% to $2 billion. The slump came after Pavel Durov, the Russian-French billionaire who is the founder and CEO of the Telegram messaging app, was arrested at Le Bourget Airport outside of Paris, France. A warrant for his arrest was issued by a unit of the French National Police because of Telegram’s lack of moderation and cooperation with the police in matters including drug trafficking and pedocriminal offences, reported French news outlet TF1Info. TON posted a response to the arrest on X that said, ”W e want to assure everyone that the TON community remains strong and fully operational.” Statement from the TON Community Following the recent news related to the Telegram’s founder Pavel Durov, we want to assure everyone that the TON community remains strong and fully operational. As a community committed to freedom of speech and d...