Pavel Durov CEO of Telegram arrested in France

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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

*Publishing here without images. These can be viewed through the link

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.

Onion tech

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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Source: https://archive.ph/27KIN
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. decry arrest of Telegram CEO:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=zIqp75cTR-0

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.


Imagine arresting the CEO of a knife manufacturer because somebody else used a knife in a crime.

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

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=7giXpagjuQQ

[Michel Leclerc]

Posted by Ravenlocke (here)
https://x.com/runews/status/1827732141670572313

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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.

https://x.com/runews/status/1827721995963740303

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https://x.com/runews/status/1827729579101860221

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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…"

https://x.com/OlgaBazova/status/1827618096665764137

“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:]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=t7Lj3gfYj3I

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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https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1828117291357344209

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https://x.com/disclosetv/status/1828116047158718824

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Text:
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.

https://x.com/BearGeopolitics/status...48660308537560

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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.

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1828112586157793621

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https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1828097711935299653

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Telegram Arrest Call to Action - Tore Says
Forbidden.News
Aug 26
https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/151...m_medium=email

(Many hyperlinks in the article not embedded here. WARNING: Lots of cursing 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...onesty-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."

Source: https://www.rumble.com/video/v5a2zo2/?pub=ijro7

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https://x.com/tassagency_en/status/1828187440458133682

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]

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Sources:

• zerohedge.com/geopolitical/billionaire-telegram-ceo-pavel-durov-arrested-france
• cnn.com/2024/08/26/tech/pavel-durov-telegram-profile-intl
• apnews.com/article/france-telegram-durov-arrest-macron-ae82ffd2197cf5684eb710e1b23650e1
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

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[Tintin]

Related, and an important heads-up here from Maria Dubovikova who, as she states on one of these threads, 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."

[Akasha]

Pavel Durov's Wiki page, 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]

Posted by Tintin (here)
Related, and an important heads-up here from Maria Dubovikova who, as she states on one of these threads, 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."

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

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

[Akasha]

Posted by Akasha (here)
Pavel Durov's Wiki page, 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?