Telegram CEO Pavel Durov today defended recent changes to his platform, amid concerns his arrest in France has made the messaging app more compliant with legal requests to share user data with the authorities.
Durov attempted to minimize the significance of changes made to the app since he was arrested in August and charged with complicity in a range of crimes, including spreading sexual images of children. He was forbidden from leaving France for six months and must appear at a police station twice a week.
In his post, the 39-year-old indirectly addressed speculation that Telegram may strengthen its notoriously light-touch content moderation as a result of his arrest. “Our core
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