The timing raised concern, as Romania was amid a ... Critics said France pressured Telegram to force the app to implement tighter controls and more censorship. The chief executive of Helius ...

the founder and CEO of Telegram, announced on Sunday that he declined a request from a “Western European government” aiming to “silence” conservative channels in Romania as the nation ...

of personally requesting that he censor conservative voices on Telegram ahead of Romania’s presidential election rerun. Durov claimed he rejected the appeal. The controversy comes amid broader ...

The founder of the Telegram messaging app said on Sunday he had refused a request by a Western government, which he did not name but appeared to imply was France, to silence conservative voices in ...

Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov on Sunday said that he refused a request by a “Western European government” to “silence” conservative channels in Romania, as the country undertakes a ...

The Russian-born co-founder of Telegram alleged in a post on X on Sunday night that DGSE chief Nicolas Lerner had asked him this spring "to ban conservative voices in Romania ahead of elections".

"A Western European government... approached Telegram, asking us to silence conservative voices in Romania ahead of today's presidential elections. I flatly refused," Durov wrote on Telegram.

"A Western European government... approached Telegram, asking us to silence conservative voices in Romania ahead of today's presidential elections. I flatly refused," founder Pavel Durov wrote on ...