Dangerous Charges Brought Against Pavel Durov By France

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In this video, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald investigates the arrest of Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of the messaging app Telegram, by French authorities, who was charged with a range of crimes related to illicit activity on the Telegram platform, including complicity in crimes committed by users and failure to cooperate with law enforcement.

This video was produced by System Update and published on YouTube on the 29th of August, 2024.

To read the transcript of the interview: Dangerous Charges Brought Against Pavel Durov By France

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ABOUT GLENN GREENWALD

Glenn Greenwald is a former constitutional lawyer, a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist, and the author of several bestsellers, including No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State (2014) and Securing Democracy: My Fight for Press Freedom and Justice in Bolsonaro’s Brazil (2021).  Acclaimed as one of the 25 most influential political commentators by The Atlantic, one of America’s top 10 opinion writers by Newsweek, and one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers for 2013 by Foreign Policy, Greenwald is a former constitutional and civil rights litigator. He was a columnist for The Guardian until October 2013 and a co-founder and former editor at The Intercept, which he left in 2020.