Telegram Founder & CEO Pavel Durov Arrested in France as Online Censorship Escalates

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In this video, published exclusively in German on our channel, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald investigates the arrest of Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of the messaging platform Telegram, by the French government, and the broader implications of this arrest, which appears to be a wider trend among governments around the world to restrict online free speech and privacy, using the pretext of combating disinformation, terrorism, and child exploitation.

This video was produced by System Update and published on YouTube on the 26th of August, 2024.

To read the transcript of the interview: Telegram Founder & CEO Pavel Durov Arrested in France as Online Censorship Escalates

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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.