Pavel Durov CEO of Telegram arrested in France

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Pavel #Durov apparently knew that the gendarmes were waiting for him at the airport—at the last moment, he tried to divert the plane to avoid landing in Paris. 🗼

According to ✈️Flightradar24, the Embraer Legacy jet carrying the #Telegram founder from 🇦🇿Baku suddenly changed its flight path while flying over the French city of Reims.

The jet turned south around 7:10 p.m. local time, about 20 minutes before the scheduled landing. Interestingly, five minutes later, the plane returned to its original course toward Paris Le Bourget Airport.

It is likely that French authorities and air traffic controllers forced the pilots to do this, although another theory suggests the Embraer didn’t have enough fuel to leave France.

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Dmitry Medvedev's commentary on Pavel Durov's arrest:

"Once, quite a long time ago, I asked Durov why he did not want to cooperate with law enforcement agencies on serious crimes. “This is my principled position,” he said. “Then there will be serious problems in any country,” I told him.

He decided that his biggest problems were in Russia, and he left, and then also received citizenship/residence permits in other countries. He wanted to be a brilliant "man of the world" who lives well without a homeland. Ubi bene ibi patria!

He miscalculated. For all our common enemies now, he is Russian – and therefore unpredictable and dangerous . Of a different blood. Definitely not Musk or Zuckerberg (who, by the way, actively cooperates with the FBI). Durov needs to finally understand that one does not choose one’s Fatherland, just like one does not choose one’s times…"

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I doubt that Russia uses a random messenger service similar to every other random chat or message system preloaded onto any new cell phone for serious military intelligence... Is there some sort of proof that Russia is using something generally as unsecured as that for such valuable and important information?

I don't believe it

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Telegram team issues first statement on its founder’s arrest, calls out absurdity of accusations against Durov

“It is absurd to claim that a platform or its owner are responsible for abuse of that platform,” the statement published on the official Telegram channel said.

“Telegram abides by EU laws, including the Digital Services Act — its moderation is within industry standards and constantly improving. Telegram CEO Pavel Durov has nothing to hide and travels frequently in Europe,” the channel said.

“Almost a billion users globally use Telegram as means of communication and as a source of vital information. We’re awaiting a prompt resolution of this situation. Telegram is with you all,” the statement concluded.

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Durov won’t bend to Western governments like Zuckerberg, that’s why he faces charges - scholar

"The French justice system has deliberately twisted the spirit of the law to formulate excessive charges against Durov. It is clear that this is a pretext," Jacques Sapir, director of studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris, told Sputnik.

The charges brought by the French authorities against Pavel Durov stem from his refusal to censor his Telegram instant messaging service, according to the pundit. Sapir contends that it is unjust to accuse the Telegram founder of complicity in terrorism, drug trafficking, and child pornography - particularly in light of the content that permeates other social networks.

"His case is similar to all the measures that are currently being taken in Western countries that are infringing on freedom of expression," he said.

Sapir suggests that the main difference between Durov and Mark Zuckerberg, whose Instagram "has a massive child exploitation problem", is that Zuckerberg censors free speech and apparently provided Western governments with a backdoor access to user data, as Elon Musk implied on August 25.

"This is one more step, after the long prosecutions against Julian Assange and those against Snowden, in a long list of attacks on freedom of expression in Western countries," Sapir said.

According to the pundit, what should be regarded as mere administrative offenses are being reclassified as serious crimes based on dubious motives and reasoning. Consequently, he stated, social networks are now facing criminalization.

The French scholar believes this trend will further elevate the significance of social networks that originate outside the Western world and may uphold freedom of expression.

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Paris prosecutor’s office to make statement on Durov’s detention on Monday

A press statement will be issued tomorrow

PARIS, August 25. /TASS/. The Paris prosecutor’s office will make a statement on the detention of Telegram messenger founder Pavel Durov on Monday, August 26, a spokesman for the prosecutor’s office told TASS.

"A press statement will be issued tomorrow," he said when asked to clarify the causes for Durov’s detention and his current status.

The LCI television channel reported earlier that Durov had been arrested at Le Bourget Airport late on August 24. He has been placed in custody and may soon be brought to court, the TF1 television channel said. According to TF1, Durov might be charged with terrorism, drug trafficking, fraud, money laundering and child pornography.

Currently, entire information about Durov’s detention is coming from the French media while official agencies are keeping silent. Both the French interior and justice ministries refused from commenting on the case either to TASS or to Western media. The Paris police department said that they know nothing about this case. The Russian embassy in Paris said it had demanded that the French authorities observe Durov’s rights but Paris is dodging cooperation on this matter.

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Utter insanity. The U.S. government tried to hire one of Pavel Durov’s engineers behind his back.

This move only reinforces the need for more decentralization—not just in our communication apps, but also in our finances and, most importantly, our governments. The Monero ethos resonates here: we must resist Orwellian centralized control.

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I doubt that Russia uses a random messenger service similar to every other random chat or message system preloaded onto any new cell phone for serious military intelligence... Is there some sort of proof that Russia is using something generally as unsecured as that for such valuable and important information?

I don't believe it

I'm with you here. I very much doubt it too. Information is shared through verified channels, as an additional press resource: actual information gathering/intel etc.. won't use internet based platforms. For field ops a whole different range of resources will be utilised.

In WW2, confirmed by an elderly chap I once had an unexpected chat with at a bus stop, who'd found highly sensitive information in a garbage bin at the back of the defence facility he worked at way back then, told me that the documents he found detailed alternative radio channels unknown to usual service personnel, for their comms.

So, however they are conducting SIGINT these days, it won't be via Telegram.

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BREAKING:

Rumble founder, Chris Pavlovski, leaves Europe, due to the arrest of Telegram's Durov.

After the arrest of Durov, the founder of the YouTube competition - Rumble, left Europe in fear.

"I'm a little late to this, but for good reason — I've just safely departed from Europe.

France has threatened Rumble, and now they have crossed a red line by arresting Telegram's CEO, Pavel Durov, reportedly for not censoring speech.

Rumble will not stand for this behavior and will use every legal means available to fight for freedom of expression, a universal human right. We are currently fighting in the courts of France, and we hope for Pavel Durov's immediate release." he said.

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🇫🇷⚔️🇷🇺New details about Pavel Durov's arrest:

- Durov did not want to land in France, but his plane had to refuel there.
- He was arrested right at the steps of his private jet.
- The EU plans to conduct a high-profile trial with the maximum possible number of charges.
- The trial will take place soon, as the legal framework was prepared in secret.
- Durov will be pressured to grant access to ANY correspondence or chat of interest to the prosecution.

Feels like a really well played specops

Overall, this is a failure on the part of the EU, and it was surely orchestrated by the US. France and the EU can say goodbye to high-tech millionaires coming to their soil. As for freedom of speech, it's not even worth discussing. Everybody saw it now.

However, I have no doubt that Telegram will become even more popular very soon. Will Durov betray us all? Unlikely. He has always stood by his principles. But as it is being said, time will tell.

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🇷🇺The arrest of Durov is equivalent to the arrest of the chief of communications of the Russian army , said the head of the Center for the Development of Transport Technologies, Alexei Rogozin.

“The transmission of intelligence, artillery adjustments, broadcasting of video feeds from copters and much more is really done very often today via Telegram”
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Outrage After Arrest Of Telegram CEO Durov In France 🇫🇷 'This Is Madness'

Russian tech billionaire Pavel Durov of the messaging app Telegram has been arrested in France (https://nos.nl/artikel/2534463-franse-tv-russische-topman-van-berichtenapp-telegram-opgepakt-in-parijs) . Durov was arrested when he landed in Paris from Azerbaijan on his private plane. According to channel TF1, he was arrested because Telegram shares little or no information about its users and uses too few moderators, giving 'criminals free rein'. According to French 🇫🇷 justice, Telegram is complicit in drug trafficking, fraud, pedo crime, terrorism and money laundering, among other things. The messaging service has more than 950 million users.


France 🇫🇷 calls the kettle black

Durov's arrest causes great outrage. Candace Owens points out that he truly believes in freedom of speech and has set up a platform that the Deep State cannot reach. “So they have arrested him now. This is madness. The Western world is not free. Perhaps never,” she writes. According to her, France 🇫🇷 is calling the kettle black. “They have a pedophile First Lady and the entire Deep State is run by pedophiles,” Owens said. Doctor Robert Malone warns that France has become an unsafe country. “The Western world has gone crazy.”
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Telegram Founder & CEO Pavel Durov ARRESTED in France! 🇫🇷 It's a WAR on Free Speech! Viva Frei Vlawg:

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Telegram Durov arrested as plane lands in France 🇫🇷 Zakharova, NGO hypocrisy:

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Internet Censorship: So it continues... (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?80790-Internet-Censorship-So-it-continues...)

[Abondance]

We have no access in France to Rumble since years now. You could bet that telegram will follow...

[Tintin]

Two Haaretz articles relating to the background behind Pavel Durov's arrest and the barrage of cyberattacks and subsequent leaked information published on Telegram accounts that have led Israel to pursue Durov. It all of course does fit in with a broader aim to restrict freedom of expression on social media platforms, but these articles help to provide some specific context.

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Source (opened): https://archive.ph/C31xl
Title: After Iran Steals Sensitive Israeli Data, Israel Tries to Censor the Internet

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Anti-Israel hackers stole troves of sensitive Israeli data and are now publishing gigabytes of secret and classified information. Unable to stop the hacks, Israel is waging a futile war to against the leaks.

Author: Omer Benjakob
Date: Aug 21, 2024

A few months ago, foreign hackers managed to break into a computer linked to Israel's Justice Ministry. Tens of thousands of classified files and sensitive emails were leaked. Links allowing anyone to download the breached files were published on Telegram, the popular instant messaging app. However, they soon began to disappear. One by one, the hacker's Telegram channels were taken down, their users deleted and posts that shared the download links gone.

Since October 7, Israel has faced an unprecedented onslaught of cyber-attacks: accounts of officials and key figures from Israel's security establishment, servers of private firms, military and defense contractors, municipalities, hospitals and even government ministries and key bodies they interact with were all targeted, if not successfully hacked, in a seemingly endless string of attacks, the full extent of which has not yet been made public.



• A crippling cyberattack hit Israel. It was just the beginning
• Cyber nightmare: Hamas has detailed intel on thousands of Israeli soldiers, families
• Personal threats and harassment: Iran escalates psychological warfare against Israelis

Many of the hackers present themselves as pro-Palestinian forces, but are often fronts for Iran's semi-official cyber-intelligence hackers. Usually, their goals are to collect information, attack infrastructure and disrupt different services. However, they are also interested in what is termed "perception hacking" and psychological warfare, in this case intended to embarrass Israel, the so-called cyber nation.

Sources say the true extent of the damage to Israel's security and economy caused by these leaks is not yet fully known, not even to those in charge of dealing with the issue in Israel. They say that despite massive investment in defensive cybersecurity measures, the scale of the leaks is likely the most severe in Israel's history – "an unprecedented looting of gigabytes upon gigabytes of information of all sorts."
Local cyber security experts explain that many times, the surfacing of hacked materials is just the public crescendo of a clandestine hack that began some time ago.

After their intelligence value is maxed out, or their operation is caught, the hackers shift gears and begin very loudly trying to publicize the stolen digital goods. Their goal: cause financial and reputational damages to Israel and Israeli firms, especially those who work with the military or state.

In other words, after the hacks come the leaks. Accordingly, once hacked, Israel works to prevent the leak and try to minimize its spread, and thus try to mitigate the long term damage caused by its online existence.

According to a number of people knowledgeable on the matter, Israel is waging a digital war on a number of fronts to try to stem the seemingly endless leak of its information. These efforts include monitoring the web and social media sites for leaks and using legal take-down requests to tech firms like Google, Amazon, Meta and even Telegram, to have them removed or blocked.

In some cases, the policy proves quite successful. Websites hosted by Western firms have been taken down for providing a home for digital loot flagged by Israeli authorities. Recently, a number of accounts were taken down by Telegram after posting links to hacked materials, including the hackers' own official channels, but also that of a well-known leaks website that frequently works with journalists and has recently started hosting leaked Israeli data.

However, critics say the efficacy of the policy, which also includes the use of local gag orders and censorship, is of limited value and poses a number of risks and ethical dilemmas. Though it helps quell some of the spread of what officials say is "information intended to harm Israel," it does so only partially.

Moreover, it has sparked a cat-and-mouse game with hackers who, dead set on leaking their goods online, have shifted to more advanced technological means to create websites that cannot be taken down.

"From October 7 and continuously since then, up till this very day, we've seen a concerted effort of cyber-attacks, some directly linked or attributed to enemy states and terrorist organizations, to conduct 'perception attacks' in the form of publishing leaks," says Haim Wismonsky, the director of the cyber unit in the Israeli State Prosecutor's Office, which is part of the Justice Ministry and is the body charged with filing the actual requests to tech firms.

"The publication of these leaks is intended to cause a scare, inspire a public panic and create the sense that we are exposed and penetrable, but they are also aimed at causing economic damage if not actually endangering the lives of those people whose personal details are included in their leaks," Wismonsky explained to Haaretz.

The policy and the way it is deployed makes Israel unique. Many countries, including the U.S., usually take criminal or legal steps against leakers, foreign and local, but will make peace with the leak's existence online. Israel, on the other hand, uses tech firm's internal rules to get them to take down the hacked goods on its behalf – and thus prevent the leaked data from reaching the public or journalists, both in Israel and abroad.

Platforms, even those considered hostile to government requests like Telegram, have rules in place intended to defend them against the legal ramifications of their users' conduct. These can include anything from take down requests due to copyright infringement, or legal claims of libel.

Hacked materials fall under a broad category of stolen goods, so the same policies in place to prevent the spread of files for illegally downloading movies or television series can also be used to take down hacked materials stolen from Israeli servers without consent.

In recent months, for example, Israeli requests flagging violations of Telegram's terms of use have led to at least 10 takedowns of hacker groups' users and channels. Many times, it's the same hacker group who, undeterred, have opened a new channel and posted new links to the same leak.

Telegram has proved a massive challenge for Israel since the start of the war. While many tech firms have streamlined mechanisms through which states can reach out to them, Telegram is considered the least cooperative of them all.

More than that, while many social media platforms have invested heavily in moderation, allowing people and organizations to help monitor content – for example, the removal of antisemitic content or posts inciting terrorism or even the removal of videos from the October 7 massacre – Telegram has not. States and users alike have a single email address to which they can send their grievances.
Telegram emerged at the start of the war as a key platform utilized by Hamas' information warfare against Israel, one Israel was unable to properly address, lacking both monitoring capabilities and an understanding of the platform.

Concerned by the wave of pro-Hamas content, which included videos from the actual attack as well as a constant stream of propaganda materials, Israelis in the high-tech industry tried late in 2023 to reach Telegram's founder, Pavel Durov.

Though they successfully contacted Durov, who lives in the UAE, he was unreceptive to these private requests to improve moderation on the platform. Though a few pages linked directly to Hamas' military wing were locally blocked at a later stage, the private initiative failed to gain any real traction with the app's founder.

Sources explain that Google or Meta will take down a page if it is shown to be directly linked to Hamas and Amazon will remove a website for hosting terrorist materials. On Telegram, content cannot be taken down with such arguments. Only clearly stolen goods will be taken down, making content claims the only effective route for Israel's legal authorities. The data speaks for itself: According to official numbers provided by Israel, the Justice Ministry has sent Facebook over 40,000 successful requests to remove "illegal content." These are not pro-or-anti-Israel posts, but rather content that is illegal by Western standards. Even TikTok has taken down over 20,000 posts flagged by Israel. On Telegram, that number is just over 1,300.

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After the initial leak from the Justice Ministry breach was published in April, officials at the office and in Israel's National Cyber Directorate tried to downplay its significance. "These are just old documents from an outdated system and no ministry network was actually penetrated." The data itself however, reveals the personal details of senior Israeli officials and contains sensitive documents and email exchanges, including those about classified subjects and information that cannot be published for legal reasons.

At the time, Israeli officials said that a gag order had been placed on the leak and the investigation into it, but also on "the publication of any information" derived from it. "A number of Telegram channels that published the documents were also taken down, and work on this front continues," the cyber body said at the time.
The digital world can be divided into three levels: the open internet, also known as the open web – or any website that can be found via a Google search; the deep web, or online content that requires a log in to be viewed, like social media platforms or large groups on messaging apps; and the infamous "dark web," the internet's underbelly where hackers and drug dealers communicate through browsers unknown to the public and not easily accessible.

Israel focuses its efforts on the first two, the open web and the deep web, with the goal of limiting exposure more than actually succeeding in removing the hack from the entire internet. However, more and more, hackers have found new and technologically bulletproof ways to keep their goods online, including in the open web.

As revealed by Haaretz, decentralized websites that use non-Western infrastructure started to appear with the first leaks by Iranian hackers earlier this year.
For example, Cyber Courts, a website dedicated to hosting the files of any anti-Israel hacking group, was found by Ari Ben Ami, founder of Telemetry Data Labs, a firm that focuses on Telegram and has tracked hack-and-leaks operations for Haaretz, to use decentralized websites. These, he says, that have since become all the rage in hack-and-leak operations and allow hackers to place to store the leaks.

"One of the main issues that Iranian operators seem to face is hosting," Ben Ami explains.

"These difficulties aren't unique to Iran, Russia faces similar difficulties and utilizes bulletproof hosting providers that also support cybercrime," he says.

In fact, the Iranians are using Russian providers not beholden to Western legal standards. Somewhat in line with its influence goals, Ben Ami notes that one of the Russian hosting sites the Iranian hackers utilize was recently exposed as a key hosting provider for the Russian Doppelganger campaign, in which websites across the world were forged using AI.

He further explains that hackers have started making use of decentralized "onion domains" that "make it significantly harder for government agencies to identify the domain host, thus making a takedown from the provider significantly more difficult."
Just this week, another known Iranian hacker group posted a new leak on such a website. It claimed to have hacked a mid-sized private Israeli defense contractor and is threatening to leak its data on a new website is set up that uses the same type of technology behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.


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Title: Personal Information of Israeli Civil Servants Leaked From Government Database and Is Held by Foreign Entity

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'#FreePavel': Elon Musk, RFK Jr. (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?120744-Robert-F.-Kennedy-jr.-May-Run-for-Presidency-Challenging-Joe-Biden-2024) decry arrest of Telegram CEO:

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X Owner Elon Musk, US politician RFK Jr, and other high-profile figures have protested online to the reported arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov.


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NATO Nation Invites Putin's Fury Over Telegram Founder | All You Need To Know About Pavel Durov:

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Pavel #Durov apparently knew that the gendarmes were waiting for him at the airport—at the last moment, he tried to divert the plane to avoid landing in Paris. 🗼

According to ✈️Flightradar24, the Embraer Legacy jet carrying the #Telegram founder from 🇦🇿Baku suddenly changed its flight path while flying over the French city of Reims.

The jet turned south around 7:10 p.m. local time, about 20 minutes before the scheduled landing. Interestingly, five minutes later, the plane returned to its original course toward Paris Le Bourget Airport.

It is likely that French authorities and air traffic controllers forced the pilots to do this, although another theory suggests the Embraer didn’t have enough fuel to leave France.

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Dmitry Medvedev's commentary on Pavel Durov's arrest:

"Once, quite a long time ago, I asked Durov why he did not want to cooperate with law enforcement agencies on serious crimes. “This is my principled position,” he said. “Then there will be serious problems in any country,” I told him.

He decided that his biggest problems were in Russia, and he left, and then also received citizenship/residence permits in other countries. He wanted to be a brilliant "man of the world" who lives well without a homeland. Ubi bene ibi patria!

He miscalculated. For all our common enemies now, he is Russian – and therefore unpredictable and dangerous . Of a different blood. Definitely not Musk or Zuckerberg (who, by the way, actively cooperates with the FBI). Durov needs to finally understand that one does not choose one’s Fatherland, just like one does not choose one’s times…"

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“here is the original interrogation...”

really? a weird Russian “sense of humour”?

an AI "docufiction” “creation” of the interrogation?

if the “masses„ of the world need this (consisting of psychotic individuals as they are) to “know” anything at all, there is no hope left for them – nor for us, who try to avoid them.. “truth” will only subsist and survive in the meaning of truth to oneself, truth to the beloved, and truth to the Beloved.. we will truly imitate the Christ even if we would prefer not to..

the rest will be just simulation and dissimulation

[Michel Leclerc]

soon to be interrogated: the CxOs and Board Members of all public and private mail and post offices, delivery companies (Amazon, DHL, FedEx etc.), financial service providers (banks, public exchanges, trading market platforms).. all known to be complicit in and indulgent to the most heinous crimes..

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France Arrests Telegram CEO Pavel Durov In Paris; Elon Musk Rallies Support:]

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The 39 year old Parel Durov, founder and CEO of the messaging service app Telegram, was arrested at Le Bourget Airport in France on Sunday, August 25. Elon Musk has expressed his disapproval of European authorities after the arrest, describing it as an attack on free speech. In multiple post Musk demanded justice for Durov.
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The Tale of Two Brothers: The Hidden Genius Behind Telegram

Once upon a time, there lived two brothers who changed the digital world forever. One, Pavel Durov, is well known as the charismatic founder of Telegram, boasting 2.5M followers on X and the spotlight that comes with it. The other, Nikolai Durov, quietly operates in the background with just over 1,000 followers, yet his brilliance is unparalleled.

Nikolai is the true architect, the brain behind Telegram's secure and revolutionary technology. A master of mathematics, Nikolai’s achievements include gold medals in the International Mathematical Olympiad and two PhDs. Despite his genius, he remains a figure in the shadows, unnoticed and uncelebrated by the masses, with not even a photo on his Wikipedia page.

Meanwhile, Pavel's arrest in France for refusing to bow to censorship pressures only further highlights the cost of standing up for freedom. While the world fixates on the handsome face of Pavel, remember that true power often lies in the unseen.

Moral of the story? In a world obsessed with looks and popularity, it’s the quiet brilliance behind the scenes that truly drives innovation. Learn math, kids, and never underestimate the value of staying out of the blinding glare and bullseye of publicity.

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HACKERS BOMBARD FRANCE WITH DDOS ATTACKS

Hackers have hit French government websites with Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks in support of detained telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov.

The targets of the attacks included government platforms, public service portals, an online doctor's appointment system and non-governmental websites such as the Institute of Social Sciences and Politics and the daily newspaper La Voix du Nord. An "escalation of these attacks" is expected in the near future, experts say.

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Telegram Arrest Call to Action - Tore Says
Forbidden.News
Aug 26
https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/151736-2/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

(Many hyperlinks in the article not embedded here. WARNING: Lots of cursing :rant: from Tore.)

"NINA JANKOWICZ IS AT THE CENTER OF THIS" - ALL US CITIZENS CAN FILE FOIA REQUESTS, DEMANDING ALL COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN US FEDERAL AGENCIES & THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT ABOUT THE ARREST OF TELEGRAM CEO

The arrest of Telegram Founder-CEO, Pavel Durov by the deranged EU-French government on Saturday is ringing a lot of alarm bells for anyone who cares about the internet and Freedom of Speech – and really, for anyone with a pulse, who doesn’t want our civilization to descend into total barbarism.

The Russian government is reportedly working to free Telegram Founder, Pavel Durov from custody in France, with the Russian embassy in Paris accusing French authorities of “refusing to cooperate” and of “blocking” Russian embassy officials in Paris from visiting with him.

Tore Maras posted this impromptu video late on Saturday night from the street in DC, responding to and adding to the comments of former State Department official, Mike Benz in the video that I posted yesterday, about what can be done to defend Durov and our First Amendment Rights, where Benz advised:

“The House Foreign Affairs Committee could subpoena or could demand, as part of its Oversight, all communications between the US Embassy in Paris – that is, the State Department’s branch in France – for their communications with prosecutors or government officials about Pavel’s arrest, prior to the arrest.

“Because I believe the State Department is, at the very least – if not outright pushing – [is] participating in this political prosecution.”

Tore reminds us that any and all US Citizens can file Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for all of the communications between the following US Government agencies and the French government and law enforcement: 1). US State Department; 2). French Embassy in Washington, DC and Consulate New York; 3). Department of Homeland Security (DHS); 4). Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); 5). Nina Jankowicz – the former head the short-lived DHS’ Disinformation Governance Board. Particularly, any communications she may have had with Alexandra Chalupa.

We should also add to this list, the Foreign Malign Influence Center, at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), to where the Disinformation Governance Board has reportedly been re-located.

Tore discloses here that all of these unprecedented, off-the-charts US Government censorship “Boards” and “Misinfo” agencies have their origins in the Obama administration’s war on Ukraine, involving the former Inspector General of the NSA, Robert Storch (currently, the Inspector General of the Department of Defense), as well as Storch’s wife, Sara Lord, who she says was working with journalists and fighting “disinformation” in Ukraine, back in 2013.

Tore stresses:

Nina Jankowicz is at the center of this. (Remember her?)
(See Rumble video at the end of this post)

So, I urge every single one of you to ask for any communications pertaining to Telegram with Nina Jankowicz. You know, the singing c@nt that started the disinformation sh!t in Ukraine and then wanted to apply it, and sat at my f@cking desk in London. Yeah, that bitch.

You send FOIA requests and ask any communication she’s had with anyone within the European Union or anything pertaining to Telegram, I f@cking guarantee you, you’ll be flooded with a sh!t-ton of stuff. In fact, they’re probably just gonna put it on the Reading Room, because that’s how much you’re gonna see.

I had forgotten all about Jankowicz – and I have to thank Tore so much, for the trip down Memory Lane, that has had me laughing my ass off, for the past hour!

Amid the non-stop firehose of assaults and indignities blasted at the American People by the Biden Regime, the Department of Homeland Security’s Disinformation Governance Board, formed in 2022 was such a Bad Look for the DNC/CCP that it was dissolved in just 4 months.

The wildly out-of-touch, completely lacking in all self-awareness, elitist pile of garbage seen in this video was appointed to head-up this new agency by the very obviously treasonous DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

This Participation Trophy Winner thought she had a bright career ahead of her, violating your First Amendment rights, as the head of a full-fledged US Federal Government agency – but she was wrong – and she felt so terribly wronged by having this dream snatched away from her, that she begged you for money to sue Fox News for their honest reporting on her – ahem, profoundly Narcissistic? Neurodivergent? WTF is going on? – behavior.

Go here: https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2023/03/06/nina-jankowiczs-gofundme-campaign-to-build-a-legal-slush-fund-is-the-very-definition-of-disinformation-and-dishonesty-n712184
...to read more about the revolting grift of this person. Thank God, her case was tossed-out last month!

In any case, Tore personally tangled with Jankowicz in Ukraine, while they were both – on separate projects – helping the Obama administration to overthrow Viktor Yanukovych, in order to replace him with their puppet, Petro Poroshenko – you know, the guy that OBrandon bribed for $1 billion, for him to fire Viktor Shokin, the good prosecutor, who was investigating his crackhead son and Burisma? And it was all caught on tape?

You probably didn’t remember that this was all caught on tape, right? Because, we have such an awesome Fourth Estate!

This is why Tore knows so much about the election machines that are being used to overthrow governments all over the world, because she was personally involved in doing this, while working at a company contracted by the CIA.

The jist of Tore’s message in this video is that US Citizens still have God-given rights, that are still protected under US Law. Exercise them, or lose them.

This video contains a lot of disruptions, which I will redact from this transcription, in order to more clearly transmit Tore’s message and for a better reading experience but her video is posted as-is.

Alexandra Bruce, ForbiddenNews
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Tore Maras: I saw the news about the Telegram Founder getting arrested in France. Now this is very interesting.

I saw the post of Mike Benz asking, telling people that, “Hey, you know, you should be finding all the communications at the State Department in France…

Now, Mike Benz is partially correct. There are definitely communications between the State Department and…the American Embassy in France, and another thing is, the French Embassy within the United States.

FOIA Requests should be going out to every single…State Department agency, but also we need to hit DHS, their misinformation agency. Now, here’s a little tidbit:

What people don’t know is that this Misinformation Group was actually created in Ukraine, when we were going after them. This is actually what the job of IG [Inspector General] of the NSA, former IG of the NSA, Storch, Robert Storch’s wife, actually set up in Ukraine. She was working with journalists and fighting “disinformation”.

In fact, the Chalupa sisters were heading that, with Jankowicz back in 2013. I know, because I was working on it too, but not on their project, but actually garnering the information they have and how we can stymie communications, you know, for whatever we were planning. So, this has been going on for a very long time, this “disinformation” campaign…

So, here’s the thing. There’s multiple agencies that are most likely involved in this.

Now, for sure, it’s the State Department. So, Hat-Tip to Mike Benz for calling that out. Obviously, the group that he was in [the Twitter/X space, from which Benz was booted?], many of them in there, are really scared of what’s happening, right now – and I should say they should be. They should be!

But he was right. State Department definitely has communications with the French Embassy here, in the United States. I would hit New York and Washington DC. Also, the US Embassy in France and also, their French counterparts.

But considering that, DHS is definitely involved, because they’re working on the “misinformation” and also, we have to look at the DOJ and the FBI, because in order for France to get in on it, they have to have some form of “crimes”.

Now, I don’t know how French Telegram is, but we all know that this is not happenstance and his [Durov’s] arrest is very interesting timing, considering the dynamics that are happening, right now with the BRICS organization and the fact that [Durov is] not silencing speech.

So, I urge every single American to use their pen. It doesn’t take you more than a minute, right? Well, no, it takes more than a minute, because they make us jump through hoops, now. But you can file a FOIA request and demand that information. Pretty simple.

And I hear a lot of people that say, “Well, I don’t want to be on ‘The List’.” There is no f@cking list. That’s all made-up. I’m on all the lists and I’m fine. In fact, I’m super-fine. Well, per se (laughs).

They do blacklist people, but you’re not doing anything but exercising your rights. So, make sure you file those requests and get that information, because no one else is gonna do it for you!

I mean, obviously, we’ve got [Tom] Fitton, who drops, you know, lawsuits and that guy pumps iron, every time he drops a suit. We have America First Legal, but they, you know, it’s not of an interest to them, because they’re not hired by him. They fight for America First, but We, as the People should be fighting for our voice – and that’s where we should hit.

So, I urge all of you to file FOIA requests: State Department, all communications with the French Embassy in the United States, the US Embassy in France, and their French counterparts. That’s key. I would also say, if there are any communications with Jankowicz and Chalupa – (camera drops)…

So as I was saying, before I was so rudely interrupted – so rudely interrupted – Nina Jankowicz is at the center of this. So, I urge every single one of you to ask for any communications pertaining to Telegram with Nina Jankowicz. You know, the singing c@nt that started the “disinformation” **** in Ukraine and then wanted to apply it and sat at my f@cking desk in London. Yeah, that bitch.

You send FOIA requests and ask any communication she’s had with anyone within the European Union or anything pertaining to Telegram, I f@cking guarantee you, you’ll be flooded with a sh!t-ton of stuff. In fact, they’re probably just gonna put it on the Reading Room, because that’s how much you’re gonna see.

So, you know, what happened to [Durov] is atrocious. You know, his pilot – I’m not even gonna say it. I am shocked at the [Twitter/X] Space and the sh!t they’re talking about; saying about money-running and all that stuff.

Who had the bots though, bitches? You were all in that f@cking chat, doing that sh!t, right? So they want to go after him for “misinformation” and they’re gonna use whatever they can to frame him.

It’s almost like Target, you know, like if you steal at Target, they won’t stop you for stealing a TV, because it’s only 500 bucks, right? But if you get another TV, still 500 bucks. But once you hit that $1,200 limit, suddenly you’re just accidentally not paying for a piece of gum, but five years ago you had stole, you know, $1,199 worth of sh!t over 10 years and suddenly, for that one pack of gum, you’re getting tried for all that ****. Well, this is how they do it. This is how the governments work.

They collect things. They entrap people. And this is why, on my chat, sometimes people are automatically booted, when they have code trailing in from those people, that are in that [Twitter/X] Space that kicked-off Mike Benz; you know, that funnel money or write scripts and attach them to personas, right?

But on top of that, some of them even scam people. I’ve had people in my group that were told, “Hey, it’s gonna help Tore. if you send us crypto and we’ll invest it for you!” and sh!t. And they f@cking steal sh!t – and it’s those little bitches. That’s why when you see people impersonating and having different profiles, you should stay away from them.

Totally stay away from them, because they’re scammers, all of them. And this is why I put a US Patent on my name, too. You know, there’s people running amok, with my image and my name on TikTok.

I send them a nice message and then they’re just gonna get a f@cking lawsuit. That’s pretty much it. That’s how it should go.

Oh, man. Telegram! So they’re coming after him, too. So that way, we only have, what? Gab, Truth, and X, for now? Huh. Everyone should be writing-out these FOIAs!

Everyone, anybody can do it. You can be over 18 and do it. You get on your website, you’re like, “Hey, I’d like to know all emails shared within the past 24 months, you know, all communications of the State Department with the French Embassy, – any French Embassy located in the United States – communications with the American Embassy in France, and any other French counterparts, regarding the social media platform or information application.”

They use some funky words. You can ask Chat GPT or Grok to tell you.

You know what? Actually say, “I want to subpoena all communications of the State Department talking about Telegram with law enforcement in France. Can you write me up a FOIA request?” and it’ll give it to you.

I would also urge you to file the same to DHS and the FBI, because they would have to be collaborating. They were probably in the loop, just to reinforce the case that France has.

I will not be surprised to see that many, maybe another country might jump in, you know, kind of just to reinforce whatever that geriatric-f@cker Macron, little cronies are doing.

But I would also super urge Nina Yankowicz and Telegram. Guarantee, you’ll be very surprised to see what you see there! It’ll be a treasure trove.

So on that note, I’m gonna hop away to go to bed, because we have to be up early, right? Is it 10 or 11? But we have to get ready, too. And suitcases, sh!t.

Okay, so I am going to bed. Say a prayer for [Pavel Durov]. They’re coming for him, hard and we should all be standing with him.

Just like we stood by President Trump. Just like we stood by Andrew Torba. Just like we stand – and stand – by Elon Musk, we should be standing for [Durov] too. Because Free Speech is imperative.

So, yeah, f@ck that Nina Yankowicz, that little f@cking singing c@nt, that sat at my desk. Watch. Guarantee you, that bitch is behind it – and the Chalupas. Well, the Chalupa sisters are pretty much spent. They’re just in Ukraine now.

Have a great evening, Guys."
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https://x.com/tassagency_en/status/1828187440458133682

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https://tass.com/world/1834159

UAE keeping an eye on Durov case

The UAE also sent a request to the French government for urgent provision of all the consular services to him

DUBAI, August 27. /TASS/. Authorities of the United Arab Emirates are keeping an eye on detention of Telegram’s co-founder Pavel Durov in France, the Foreign Ministry of UAE said.

"[Authorities] of the UAE are closely following the case of UAE citizen Pavel Durov, the founder of the Telegram application, who was detained by French authorities in the Le Bourget Airport," the ministry said in the statement published by the WAM news agency. The UAE also sent a request to the French government "for urgent provision of all the consular services to him.

Durov was arrested at the Le Bourget Airport on August 24. The period of his detention was extended for 96 hours the next day. The Paris Office of Prosecutor charges him in particular with "complicity in illegal drug trafficking, crimes against children, and fraud.".

[ExomatrixTV]

The Truth About Telegram And Pavel Durov’s Arrest!! Hint: (Encryption Is A Scam):

https://1a-1791.com/video/s8/2/v/r/A/r/vrArt.gaa.mp4


source (https://rumble.com/v5ci3x1-the-truth-about-telegram-and-pavel-durovs-arrest-hint-encryption-is-a-scam.html)

Sources:


zerohedge.com/geopolitical/billionaire-telegram-ceo-pavel-durov-arrested-france (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/billionaire-telegram-ceo-pavel-durov-arrested-france)
cnn.com/2024/08/26/tech/pavel-durov-telegram-profile-intl (https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/26/tech/pavel-durov-telegram-profile-intl)
apnews.com/article/france-telegram-durov-arrest-macron-ae82ffd2197cf5684eb710e1b23650e1 (https://apnews.com/article/france-telegram-durov-arrest-macron-ae82ffd2197cf5684eb710e1b23650e1)
zerohedge.com/geopolitical/france-extends-detention-telegram-ceo-pavel-durov-questioning (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/france-extends-detention-telegram-ceo-pavel-durov-questioning)
theconversation.com/french-police-have-arrested-the-founder-of-telegram-what-happens-next-could-change-the-course-of-big-tech-237462 (https://theconversation.com/french-police-have-arrested-the-founder-of-telegram-what-happens-next-could-change-the-course-of-big-tech-237462)
bgr.com/business/frances-arrest-of-telegrams-ceo-feels-like-a-warm-up-for-a-much-bigger-target-elon-musk (https://bgr.com/business/frances-arrest-of-telegrams-ceo-feels-like-a-warm-up-for-a-much-bigger-target-elon-musk/)
zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-calls-detained-telegram-founder-political-prisoner-demands-france-provide (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-calls-detained-telegram-founder-political-prisoner-demands-france-provide)
cnbc.com/2024/08/26/who-is-telegram-founder-pavel-durov-and-why-was-he-arrested.html (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/26/who-is-telegram-founder-pavel-durov-and-why-was-he-arrested.html)
weforum.org/docs/WEF_2016_2018_Network_of_Global_Future_Councils_Final_Report.pdf (https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_2016_2018_Network_of_Global_Future_Councils_Final_Report.pdf)
x.com/KenTheroux/status/1827577600434196879 (https://x.com/KenTheroux/status/1827577600434196879)
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13780055/Russian-Elon-Musk-global-arrest-row-Dubai-based-Telegram-tech-billionaire-fled-homeland-Putin-fathered-100-children-sperm-high-quality-genes.html (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13780055/Russian-Elon-Musk-global-arrest-row-Dubai-based-Telegram-tech-billionaire-fled-homeland-Putin-fathered-100-children-sperm-high-quality-genes.html)

What Are You Hiding From The NSA?
altcensored.com/watch?v=0LEWMed9q4Q (https://altcensored.com/watch?v=0LEWMed9q4Q)

Press For Truth In Ottawa – Echelon, Verichip and the Federal sElection
altcensored.com/watch?v=kdL0BFgRPqM (https://altcensored.com/watch?v=kdL0BFgRPqM)

[Tintin]

Related, and an important heads-up here from Maria Dubovikova who, as she states on one (https://x.com/politblogme/status/1828703107607323068) of these threads (https://x.com/politblogme/status/1828691450587988467), is an information warfare specialist:

UAE and France



"Perpetrators have fabricated a fake video purporting to be from Al Jazeera, claiming that the UAE has rejected a deal for 80 Rafale jets with France.

The disinformation campaign began around 8:00 PM Moscow time with a leak on certain dubious Telegram channels. From there, the fake started seeping into Twitter (X). The news was picked up by opposition opinion leaders (and even politicians!) in the US and Europe.

It's unclear why anyone would want to spread this hoax. There seems to be no point unless it's orchestrated by adversaries.

Considering how rapidly it's spreading across credible public channels and being picked up by conservative opinion leaders who don't bother with verification, relying on each other, it's a blatant setup that damages right-wing and opposition thinkers.

The spread of this fake, which was meticulously prepared to the extent of producing a video mimicking Al Jazeera, serves as supposed evidence of the thesis that there is continuous Russian disinformation, fake news, and a clear campaign of interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign state by Russian and pro-Russian forces. It's an undermining of positions and a discrediting of opponents of the mainstream and advocates for reason.

It's hard to imagine that this leak was generated by Russia for some purpose. Because when the refutation comes (and it should come, given the increasing circulation of the disinformation), the bubble will burst without any result, impacting everyone spreading the news. Setting up people of reason and anti-mainstream influencers like this is nonsensical."

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[Akasha]

Pavel Durov's Wiki page (https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Durov), reference #11 clearly states he was a member of the World Economic Forum Young Global Leaders class of 2017. The WayBack machine only goes back to 2019 making it difficult to verify whether this is true or false. Thoughts?

[Tintin]

Related, and an important heads-up here from Maria Dubovikova who, as she states on one (https://x.com/politblogme/status/1828703107607323068) of these threads (https://x.com/politblogme/status/1828691450587988467), is an information warfare specialist:

UAE and France



"Perpetrators have fabricated a fake video purporting to be from Al Jazeera, claiming that the UAE has rejected a deal for 80 Rafale jets with France.

The disinformation campaign began around 8:00 PM Moscow time with a leak on certain dubious Telegram channels. From there, the fake started seeping into Twitter (X). The news was picked up by opposition opinion leaders (and even politicians!) in the US and Europe.

It's unclear why anyone would want to spread this hoax. There seems to be no point unless it's orchestrated by adversaries.

Considering how rapidly it's spreading across credible public channels and being picked up by conservative opinion leaders who don't bother with verification, relying on each other, it's a blatant setup that damages right-wing and opposition thinkers.

The spread of this fake, which was meticulously prepared to the extent of producing a video mimicking Al Jazeera, serves as supposed evidence of the thesis that there is continuous Russian disinformation, fake news, and a clear campaign of interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign state by Russian and pro-Russian forces. It's an undermining of positions and a discrediting of opponents of the mainstream and advocates for reason.

It's hard to imagine that this leak was generated by Russia for some purpose. Because when the refutation comes (and it should come, given the increasing circulation of the disinformation), the bubble will burst without any result, impacting everyone spreading the news. Setting up people of reason and anti-mainstream influencers like this is nonsensical."

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..and now Maria publishes a succinct timeline for how this gained traction:

Source: https://x.com/politblogme/status/1828779744306864512

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[Akasha]

Pavel Durov's Wiki page (https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Durov), reference #11 clearly states he was a member of the World Economic Forum Young Global Leaders class of 2017. The WayBack machine only goes back to 2019 making it difficult to verify whether this is true or false. Thoughts?

Ok, I’ll wade in with a few of my own paranoid meanderings. IMO, the Wiki reference is true and Telegram is nothing more than an unrestricted Facebook-style data-mine. Don’t get me wrong: I still use it like everybody else, but I always assume this is the case. It’s the “you don’t get nuffin’ for nuffin’” principle. If someone wants a truly private service, they will need to pay for it, and handsomely too.

This whole debacle smells to me of an operation attempting to validate, to the freedom-loving community that use the service, someone with very questionable associates and history.

But hey, I’m just a paranoid freak. What would I know?

[ExomatrixTV]

France 🇫🇷 Loses BILLIONS as Calls to ‘Free Pavel’ EXPLODE!:

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starts: 1:41 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v20EUZO_I6I&t=101s)

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Text:
NEW:

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz has reported that Telegram has posed a 'significant challenge for Israel', just days before CEO Pavel Durov's arrest:

"Many tech firms have streamlined mechanisms through which states can reach out to them to censor content, but Telegram is the least cooperative of them all.”

They also add that Telegram has failed to remove antisemitic content.

https://x.com/Megatron_ron/status/1828582375896305941

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Text:
MACRON SET UP TELEGRAM CEO AT US DEEP STATE’S BEHEST – WALL STREET ANALYST

France has been laying a trap Telegram founder Pavel Durov for some time, Wall Street analyst and investigative journalist Charles Ortel told Sputnik.

He did not rule out that granting Durov French citizenship was part of the plan. "It looks very much like a trap," Ortel said.

The plot to entrap Durov could have been initiated by Macron either at the behest of the US "deep state" or as part of the French president's attempt to "curry favor" with its leaders, the Wall Street analyst argued.

"Deep state 'globalism' is a fundamentally flawed construct that enriches a tiny minority of connected insiders, and impoverishes the balance of the world," Ortel said. "Forums such as Telegram pose threats to educating the deluded (perhaps willingly) mass audience that will, in the end, bring corrupt actors, including those in the deep state, to account."

"The Democrat plan for the 2024 election is a flagrant assault on Democracy and the Constitution,” Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel told Sputnik. “Kamala Harris and Tim Walz have been selected without receiving a single vote in any primary."

"They refuse to provide detailed policy prescriptions for their 'Administration.' They refuse to take real interviews to explain their backgrounds and plans," the analyst added.

Ortel believes that "they and their handlers are trying to chill investigative inquiry, run out the clock avoiding the press, and then attempt to steal an election."

The deep state would need almost complete control of the media and social platforms like it had in 2020, when it banned and isolated Donald Trump and his supporters for "election denial", the analyst said.

Reports emerged in spring 2024 that key US federal agencies, including the FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), resumed discussions with Big Tech firms like Microsoft, Google and Meta* on "foreign propaganda" and "disinformation removal."

But in contrast to 2020, there are at least two "wild cards" now: Pavel Durov's Telegram and Elon Musk's X (formerly Twitter). That is why Durov was arrested in France, Ortel said, adding that he expects similar "sabotage" against Musk before the election.

"Chief beneficiaries in the American political class are running scared – the Obamas, the Clintons, the Bidens and the Bushes – so they are playing every possible dirty trick," the analyst said.

Ortel's concerns are shared by a majority of US voters. A July survey by Rasmussen Reports found that 62% of likely voters fear this year's election could be marred by fraud.

*banned for extremism in Russia

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1828853789077430694

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Text:
JIM ROGERS: DUROV’S DETENTION COULD END FRANCE’S STATUS AS SAFE ZONE FOR HIGH-TECH BUSINESS

“Whenever a country starts arresting high-level executives, especially [in] technology, or in an industry which is international and usual, it attracts attention, and many people will think it is unjustified and many people will say it's unjustified,” renowned investor Jim Rogers told Sputnik.

“So I don't know, I hope that France knows what it's doing. If France has an ironclad 100% case, then it probably will not hurt them. Otherwise, many people will say ‘wait a minute, we don't want to do anything in France. It is too dangerous,’” Rogers warned.

“I don't know if anybody's guilty or not, but I will say this will make many people wonder about doing business in France. This will make many people check to see that everything they are doing in France is okay. It's an added level of expense. It's an added level of operation. Nobody wants to be caught doing something wrong in the country. And if people now worry about France, it's another expense. Another level of caution,” the veteran investor explained.

Pavel Durov was transferred to a Paris court for “initial questioning and possible indictment” today, days after his arrest at Paris’s Bourget Airport on a long list of dubious charges.

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1828864118368915779

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[ExomatrixTV]

Macron, Durov dinner trap? Elensky wants US to strike Russia. Lavrov, west playing with fire:

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[Tintin]

A light hearted broadside concerning Durov:



The French imbeciles arrested the wrong brother.
The one with the encryption keys( which are already reconfigured ), the brain, is Nikolai Durov, who has two PhDs in math.
He lives in St. Petersburg and is a professor in a Russian University.
Merde.
LOL.

Source: https://x.com/semper_vincit/status/1828954962749206658

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[mountain_jim]

https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1828918312069128268

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Tucker Carlson

@TuckerCarlson
Was the Biden administration involved in the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov? Mike Benz explains.

(1:20) Who Was Involved in Pavel Durov’s Arrest?
(15:50) How Telegram Is Used by the CIA
(27:22) Domestic Policy Doesn’t Exist
(34:19) The Redefining of Democracy
(39:21) The Biggest Threat to NATO
(44:16) What Is DARPA?
(1:02:53) WhatsApp and the Facebook Files
(1:13:34) Does Putin Have a Back Door to Telegram?
(1:19:12) The Red Lines Memo to Zelensky
(1:28:09) The Real Motive Behind Durov’s Arrest
(1:43:51) The Deep State vs. Donald Trump
(1:50:46) Will They Take Out Elon Musk Next?
(2:04:27) Would Benz Join a Trump Administration?

[ExomatrixTV]

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov's on bail & Zuckerberg's Censorship Regrets – with Michael Shellenberger:

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Telegram CEO Pavel Durov has just been released from prison after being arrested in Paris on Saturday for allegations of allowing criminal activity on Telegram. There are nearly 1 billion users on Telegram worldwide, with it playing a major role in the Russia-Ukraine war. Why has Telegram become such a popular social media platform? Both Telegram and Whatsapp are some of the few social media platforms that offer their users end-to-end encryption, but what is end-to-end encryption? And what could Pavel Durov's arrest mean for government censorship? Natasha Feroze is joined by the journalist and professor Michael Shellenberger (https://rumble.com/search/all?q=Michael%20Shellenberger) to discuss the arrest, and to follow up on his own story Twitter Files – which exposed government censorship of Covid 'misinformation' on social media platforms.

[Vicus]

"Bomb" for USA, CIA and Telegram: This is how they used it for business worldwide!

Telegram was "favorite of CIA and State Department"

The encrypted app was the CIA's "darling", according to former State Department diplomat Mike Bentz, as its head, Pavel Durov, is accused without public evidence of crimes that may have been committed within it !

It is absurd to believe that the head of a social network is responsible for any criminal actions that occurred on the platform, as his lawyer pointed out!

"The US and the CIA have used the encrypted social networking app Telegram to incite riots and protest movements against foreign governments they deem undesirable ," said former Trump administration official and free speech activist Mike Benz.

"The US State Department was using Telegram," using its encryption and local popularity , "to incite protests and riots in Russia — just as it did in Belarus, Iran, Hong Kong and attempted to do in China," the former State Department official said.

Encrypting the app is a powerful means of evading state media control, allowing "US-funded political groups or dissidents to gather tens of thousands of supporters with relative impunity ," he added.

And who can rule out with certainty that the rest of the crimes Durov is accused of were committed or orchestrated in the West? – ask the media.

Benz claimed that Telegram was the "main channel" when the US was "essentially orchestrating a color revolution in Belarus" in 2020.

"The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) was actually paying the main administrators of the Telegram channels that orchestrated these riots," he said, calling the NE D "one of the most prolific CIA departments in the arsenal."

The practice is part of a long-running campaign by the US, UK and other NATO partners to gain political control over former Soviet Union territories and their resources, according to Benz.

He concluded that Telegram was "the favorite of the CIA and the State Department" for political operations worldwide because of its nearly billion users and the ease with which they can be directed to the necessary channels for recruitment.

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[Lunesoleil]

A light hearted broadside concerning Durov:
The French imbeciles arrested the wrong brother.
The one with the encryption keys( which are already reconfigured ), the brain, is Nikolai Durov, who has two PhDs in math.
He lives in St. Petersburg and is a professor in a Russian University.


Wow too strong, from what I just saw, he's a computer genius, the two brothers born under a Full Moon, but he has a head start. Completely agree, he's the one who holds the controls...
Pavel Durov, founder of the social network VK and the messaging service Telegram (https://lunesoleil23.wordpress.com/2024/08/29/pavel-dourov-fondateur-du-reseau-social-vk-et-de-la-messagerie-telegram/)
I mainly analyze the little brother, thank you for the information

[ExomatrixTV]

Mike Benz: The Real Reason for Pavel Durov’s Arrest, and the Deep State’s Plan to Control Our Speech:

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https://x.com/LizCrokin/status/1829288277699883382

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@LizCrokin
The girlfriend of Telegram founder Pavel Durov, Yulia Vavilova, may be an agent of the Israeli intelligence service Mossad.

Israel has repeatedly noted that Hamas terrorists keep in touch and coordinate their actions through Telegram. Vavilova deliberately marked geolocation on her social media while traveling with the entrepreneur allegedly so special services could track him. Also, many believe Vavilova's task was to hand over Durov to French law enforcement agencies.

I can say with confidence that the intel agency that has been the most guilty of harassing, gang stalking, tapping and infiltrating me including in my own home is Mossad.

People in positions of power, especially those who are a threat to the Deep State, are targeted by intelligence agents and assets. Powerful men, like Elon Musk, are often targeted and/or blackmailed by female spies running honeytrap type operations. This movement is filled with these cunning spies, and many of them are people you follow.

Let the world beware!

Check out my post below on Lady Gaga potentially running an op on Julian Assange.👇🏻

[ExomatrixTV]

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[Ravenlocke]

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https://x.com/RealPepeEscobar/status/1828470696642781522

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https://sputnikglobe.com/20240827/pepe-escobar-eu-to-telegram---were-coming-to-get-you-1119928501.html

Pepe Escobar: EU to Telegram - We're Coming to Get You
The Pavel Durov saga is a gift that will keep on giving for a long time to come. This is what hot information war is all about. So let’s attempt to connect several loose ends.

A high-level Russian analyst makes the case that Durov’s arrest is connected with “anti-French protests in its former colonies, withdrawal from its traditional 'sphere of influence' where Telegram infrastructure was used to push anti-colonial and anti-Macronist narratives”.

Add to it an “attempt to influence narratives on Ukraine both in Russian and the international media field, which is highly dependent on Telegram infrastructure.”
Paris is indeed desperate to make itself relevant when it comes to psy ops and influencing/special warfare in Ukraine.

However, as the analyst notes, the French don’t have the tech means to accomplish it. So this may have led to Macron deciding to “exercise a personal pressure campaign against Durov himself. French authorities must be rather desperate in trying to keep their heads in the game of global politics. And Telegram today is (his italics) global politics.”

Paris was just waiting for a big break. When the pilot of Durov’s Embraer private jet submitted his flight plan, there was no warrant for his arrest in France. Only when the jet was on its way to Le Bourget, Paris filed the warrant in haste. Durov was clueless all along.

In a nutshell: Paris got a fateful heads up he was flying into France – could have been via Durov’s Dubai-based, post-obsessive, social climbing girlfriend – and laid out the trap in a flash.

There’s a myth that the FSB in the past asked Durov for Telegram’s encryption keys. False. The FSB wanted Telegram to provide top access on investigations of serious crimes, on a case-by-case basis. That’s an enormous difference compared to what the US Government does with Meta or Twitter/X via their totally open backdoors.

Durov though got drunk on NATOstan’s “freedom and democracy” propaganda, rebuffed Russia, and left.

And that brings us to President Putin.

Putin had better things to do than to meet Durov in Baku, and the Kremlin has gone on the record to deny the meeting. Durov was doing a tour of Central Asia and the Caucasus, they happened to cross their paths in Azerbaijan.

There’s one thing that Putin never tolerates: betrayal of Russia. And that applies to the letter to Durov.

When Durov went to the US, the Americans, predictably, demanded Telegram’s backdoors to surveil everybody. So he set up shop in Dubai and later applied for French citizenship.

Durov became a French citizen only 3 years ago – significantly, before the launch of the SMO - via a special “eminent foreigner” program set up by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Very few are eligible; only a “French-speaking foreigner who contributes through their eminent action to the influence of France and the prosperity of its international economic relations”.

Well, no “eminent action” was enough to keep him away from a French slammer.

How to Get Those Keys
The European Commission (EC) in Brussels can be summarily described as a notorious bunch of EUrocrat cowards and/or psychopaths cheerfully praising “our values”.
Predictably, the EC refuses to comment on Durov’s arrest, saying it's a "national investigation".
An "investigation" which happens to have been “encouraged” by the US Deep State, carried out since July 8 by vassal Macronist police, to the benefit of NATO and... the European Commission itself.
The charges against Durov revealed by France’s Prosecutor of the Republic should be destroyed in court by any crack legal team. Essentially, the claims are that Durov himself is responsible for those abusing Telegram. He is “complicit” of every misdeed under the sun – from organized fraud to drug-trafficking – all the way to a hazy accusation of providing encrypted services without a “certified declaration”.
The accusations about Telegram’s lack of moderation are false. For instance, Telegram actively censors correspondence inside the EU; EU residents cannot access countless chats and channels. Moreover, Telegram is not concerned by the recent, hardcore neo-Orwellian EU law against mega social networks, because it harbors less than 45 million European users a day.

“The current liberal-totalitarian Euro-gulag, or EuroLag, is a massive power bloc that does not have access to Telegram’s content.”

Telegram maintains its own servers around the world, and routing goes via Amazon, Cloudfare and Google. Since the start of Telegram, US intel/surveillance has the means to easily block it - if they feel like it.
The EU is a different ball game. So here we have Brussels, via Paris, trying to acquire at least some control over Telegram – and social networks in general. A crucial reminder – which could be billed under the Pathetic Tech department: Europe has no (italics mine) social networks.
Hence the non-stop threats against Twitter/X and the neo-Orwellian Digital Services Act over the responsibility of platforms in terms of content, which applies to all of them, and not only Telegram.
The EU and France desperately want what the hegemonic power already has, in droves: access to everything, right here, right now, with no legal documentation whatsoever.
The key question now is: will they get it by applying pressure over Pavel Durov? There’s no evidence he has Telegram’s encryption keys. What if they got the wrong guy?
Nikolai Durov, Pavels’ ultra-discreet brother, is the prime genius architect of Telegram: math master, two PhDs, gold medals in the International Mathematical Olympiad. The French would rather cut a deal – thus the extended interrogation: but that would imply breaking Pavel so he would influence Nikolai to hand over those fabled keys.

Why Now? And Who Profits?
Predictably, Durov’s interrogation goes on with zero transparence. France is an excruciatingly secretive society, prone to absolute silence on serious matters, nerve-wracking slow, punctuated by rare formal declarations. It’s all about procedure – and the bureaucracy is stultifying.
Yet French bureaucracy may have given a precious hint on what really bothers them. They simply cannot accept that anyone uses – or provides – the means of “obfuscation” in terms of financial transactions, bypassing censorship and bypassing surveillance.
So this may go way beyond the obsession to get some or all of Telegram’s encryption keys. The French bureaucratic apparatus wants to go no holds barred to suppress any possibility of any bypassing – while retaining the power to punish anyone.
If the saga goes on and on, leading to a trial and eventually a 20-year prison sentence, that means Durov would not be broken facing the bureaucratic apparatus, and he will always remain “an accomplice”.

Hardly likely. Bye bye to unlimited glitz and glamour, in exchange for a daily stale baguette in a French gaol?
Two more inevitable questions. Why now? Because the EU needs it, badly. And who profits? The leading candidates are the “esprit de corps” of ultra-regimented French bureaucracy and their Franco-European oligarch connections. Envy is also in the cards. Durov is Russian, an outsider, and Telegram – with a billion users worldwide – is a resounding success.
Anything can happen further on down the road – including the blocking of Telegram in France and the EU. The Global Majority could not care less. Meanwhile, multitudes marvel at how a narcissist tech globalist could be so naïve to believe that liberal totalitarianism would ever protect his freedom.

[Ravenlocke]

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🚨🇫🇷#BREAKING: Pavel Durov's First Statement Since Arrest in France

Full Statement From His Telegram:

“❤️ Thanks everyone for your support and love!

Last month I got interviewed by police for 4 days after arriving in Paris. I was told I may be personally responsible for other people’s illegal use of Telegram, because the French authorities didn’t receive responses from Telegram.

This was surprising for several reasons:

1. Telegram has an official representative in the EU that accepts and replies to EU requests. Its email address has been publicly available for anyone in the EU who googles “Telegram EU address for law enforcement”.

2. The French authorities had numerous ways to reach me to request assistance. As a French citizen, I was a frequent guest at the French consulate in Dubai. A while ago, when asked, I personally helped them establish a hotline with Telegram to deal with the threat of terrorism in France.

3. If a country is unhappy with an internet service, the established practice is to start a legal action against the service itself. Using laws from the pre-smartphone era to charge a CEO with crimes committed by third parties on the platform he manages is a misguided approach. Building technology is hard enough as it is. No innovator will ever build new tools if they know they can be personally held responsible for potential abuse of those tools.

Establishing the right balance between privacy and security is not easy. You have to reconcile privacy laws with law enforcement requirements, and local laws with EU laws. You have to take into account technological limitations. As a platform, you want your processes to be consistent globally, while also ensuring they are not abused in countries with weak rule of law. We’ve been committed to engaging with regulators to find the right balance. Yes, we stand by our principles: our experience is shaped by our mission to protect our users in authoritarian regimes. But we’ve always been open to dialogue.

Sometimes we can’t agree with a country’s regulator on the right balance between privacy and security. In those cases, we are ready to leave that country. We've done it many times. When Russia demanded we hand over “encryption keys” to enable surveillance, we refused — and Telegram got banned in Russia. When Iran demanded we block channels of peaceful protesters, we refused — and Telegram got banned in Iran. We are prepared to leave markets that aren’t compatible with our principles, because we are not doing this for money. We are driven by the intention to bring good and defend the basic rights of people, particularly in places where these rights are violated.

All of that does not mean Telegram is perfect. Even the fact that authorities could be confused by where to send requests is something that we should improve. But the claims in some media that Telegram is some sort of anarchic paradise are absolutely untrue. We take down millions of harmful posts and channels every day. We publish daily transparency reports (like this or this ). We have direct hotlines with NGOs to process urgent moderation requests faster.

However, we hear voices saying that it’s not enough. Telegram’s abrupt increase in user count to 950M caused growing pains that made it easier for criminals to abuse our platform. That’s why I made it my personal goal to ensure we significantly improve things in this regard. We’ve already started that process internally, and I will share more details on our progress with you very soon.

I hope that the events of August will result in making Telegram — and the social networking industry as a whole — safer and stronger. Thanks again for your love and memes 🙏”

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[pounamuknight]

What a super interesting timeline, so far!

23 Aug: Telegram channel, DDoSecrets is taken down (https://www.newarab.com/news/whistleblower-telegram-channel-shut-down-after-israel-govt-leak). They published Israeli documents revealing nefarious government spying and circumventing/breaking international laws (https://ddosecrets.com/article/israel-ministry-of-defense)

24 Aug: Pavel Durov is arrested in Paris

25 Aug: Moscow demands his release (https://www.rt.com/news/603048-durov-moscow-france-embassy-planes/)

26 Aug: Paris charges Durov (https://www.tribunal-de-paris.justice.fr/sites/default/files/2024-08/2024-08-26%20-%20CP%20TELEGRAM%20.pdf) with drug-trafficking, child-porn/abuse material, organized fraud, money laundering, etc

27 Aug: Macron tweets (https://x.com/EmmanuelMacron/status/1828073770461921594) that Durov's arrest not political. While head of Paris Police (OFMIN) posts (now deleted) that Durov was arrested because of Telegrams lack of moderation and cooperation. Ie. lack of imperial control

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29 Aug: Durov released on $5 milion bail under judicial limits

Sep 5: Telegram changes their privacy terms & service

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Telegram used to keep user chats completely private. Now they've added a Report Button that flags undesirable chat/content. No more privacy. Potentially, a backdoor :silent:

[ExomatrixTV]

The wildly out-of-touch, completely lacking in all self-awareness, elitist pile of garbage seen in this video was appointed to head-up this new agency by the very obviously treasonous DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas (https://rumble.com/search/all?q=Alejandro%20Mayorkas).
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[Akasha]

Pavel Durov's Wiki page (https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Durov), reference #11 clearly states he was a member of the World Economic Forum Young Global Leaders class of 2017. The WayBack machine only goes back to 2019 making it difficult to verify whether this is true or false. Thoughts?

Ok, I’ll wade in with a few of my own paranoid meanderings. IMO, the Wiki reference is true and Telegram is nothing more than an unrestricted Facebook-style data-mine. Don’t get me wrong: I still use it like everybody else, but I always assume this is the case. It’s the “you don’t get nuffin’ for nuffin’” principle. If someone wants a truly private service, they will need to pay for it, and handsomely too.

This whole debacle smells to me of an operation attempting to validate, to the freedom-loving community that use the service, someone with very questionable associates and history.

But hey, I’m just a paranoid freak. What would I know?

Looks like my paranoia has been somewhat validated, as explained in the following video:

Telegram Plays Ball and Commits to Moderation (https://tbot.substack.com/p/telegram-plays-ball-and-commits-to?triedRedirect=true)

[pounamuknight]

Here's brave Pavel Durov giving Russia the middle finger over censorship before running away to EU

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Few years later, same billionaire is kissing the EU Commission's middle finger over censorship :thumbsdown:

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[Ravenlocke]

Telegram boss, Pavel Durov refuses to silence conservative voices in Romania ahead of presidential elections.

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🇷🇴 Pavel Durov refused to comply with the demands of "one Western European government" and block Telegram channels that support the course of Simion and Georgescu.

Durov accompanied his post with an emoji of a French baguette 🥖

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TG boss refuses to censor on Telegram - after clowns in France asked him

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[Ravenlocke]

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Telegram boss Pavel Durov said that the head of French intelligence, Nicolas Lerner (below), asked him to work against free speech in Romania.

Durov says he refused.

The French got the result they wanted in Romania. Who do you believe?

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"You either have freedom of speech or you don't," Pavel Durov.

Ah yes, our favorite selective free absolutist. Also known as an opportunist.

(Reminder that Mr Durov continues to block RT & Sputnik on Telegram in territories far beyond any legal requirement - such as the US)

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