By Mark Trevelyan and Martin Coulter LONDON (Reuters) - Telegram boss Pavel Durov said on Friday that the messaging app would tackle criticism of its content moderation and remove some features that had been abused for illegal activity. Durov, who was last

By Gabriel Stargardter PARIS (Reuters) - The investigation into Telegram boss Pavel Durov that has fired a warning shot to global tech titans was started by a small cybercrime unit within the Paris prosecutor's office, led by 38-year-old Johanna Brousse. The arrest

By Hyunsu Yim SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean authorities called on Telegram and other social media platforms on Wednesday to work together with them in deleting and blocking sexually explicit deepfake content, seeking to appease public and political outrage over the

An error of judgement or a voluntary act to reach an agreement with the authorities. These are the two most popular hypotheses as to why Pavel Durov chose to land on his personal plane in France, a country where he

By Lidia Kelly (Reuters) - Pavel Durov, billionaire founder and CEO of the Telegram messaging app, was arrested at the Bourget airport outside Paris on Saturday evening, TF1 TV and BFM TV said, citing unidentified sources. TF1 and BFM both said the

Why Tim Cook cannot abandon the Asian giant WhatsApp, Threads, Signal and Telegram: China orders, and Apple delivers. It's not the first time and probably won't be the last given, considering the entanglements that bind the Californian company to the Asian

By Lidia Kelly  (Reuters) - The Telegram messaging app, one of the most popular social media platforms in Ukraine and Russia, will likely cross 1 billion active monthly users within a year, its founder said in remarks published on Tuesday. In a

'Block Telegram in Spain' was the request of the Iberian High Court, but the decision lasted little more than 48 hours, with the judge backtracking due to strong protests from app users. What happened describes a cross-section often repeated, with a messaging app

By Charlie Devereux MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's High Court has ordered the suspension of messaging app Telegram's services in the country after media companies complained it was allowing users to upload their content without permission, according to a court source. The use