The Future Will Not Be Telegrammed

The worldwide debate over how much responsibility those who run social media companies have when it comes to what is shared on their platforms hit a new point of inflection as Telegram’s Pavel Durov has been arrested in France. WaPo (Gift Article): Telegram’s Pavel Durov held in France for alleged distribution of child sex abuse material. “Durov was being temporarily detained on suspicion of involvement with distributing child sex abuse material and drugs, money laundering and working with organized crime.”

+ “Durov, the elusive founder of Telegram who was detained in France over the weekend, cuts the figure of a mysterious, globe-trotting tech bro with Mark Zuckerberg’s prodigiousness, Jack Dorsey’s bizarre lifestyle habits and Elon Musk’s libertarian streak – plus a similar obsession with pronatalism and fathering children. Durov said in July that he had fathered more than 100 children thanks to sperm donations he had made over the past 15 years.” Meet Pavel Durov.