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Kremlin delivers warning to Telegram boss after Moscow terror attack
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Vladimir Putin’s press secretary on Thursday urged Russian-born Telegram boss Pavel Durov to monitor the messaging app more closely, claiming that terrorists use it.
“We would have expected more attention from Pavel Durov,” Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with Russia’s pro-government outlet Life.
According to the Russian state-controlled news agency RIA, the attackers were recruited in a Telegram channel belonging to ISIS-K, an Islamic State group affiliate, which emerged in late 2014 as a breakaway faction of the Pakistani Taliban.
Critics accuse Telegram of tolerating the spread of conspiracy theories and hate speech, which often find a home — and proliferate — on the app.
The platform’s founder Durov addressed the criticism in a blog post in October 2017, arguing that Telegram defends freedom of speech.
In a recent interview with the Financial Times, Durov said when asked about Putin and the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine: “Let’s not go there," adding that it is “very important for the world to retain Telegram as a neutral platform.”
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