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Elon Musk, a self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist,” whose platform, X, has been under EU scrutiny regarding its content moderation, swooped in to support Durov following his arrest. # ...
Pavel Valeryevich Durov [b] (Russian: Павел Валерьевич Дуров; born 10 October 1984) is a Russian technology entrepreneur best known as the founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Telegram, a messaging platform launched in 2013. Durov was born in Russia, where he co-founded the social networking site VKontakte (VK) in ...
Net worth (billions of USD) Source of wealth Ref. 1: 87 Vladimir Lisin: Russia: 68 18.4 –US$7.8B: Iron & steel industry [5] 2: 97 Vladimir Potanin: Russia: 64 17.3 –US$9.7B: Metals [6] 3: 123 Pavel Durov: Russia Saint Kitts and Nevis France United Arab Emirates: 40 15.1 –US$2.1B: Software: Telegram [7] 4: 130 Leonid Mikhelson: Russia ...
[8] American entrepreneur and investor Balaji Srinivasan tweeted that Pavel Durov's "crime" "appears to be enabling free speech online". English-American entrepreneur Paul Graham , one of the founders of the startup accelerator Y Combinator , tweeted, "It's hard to imagine a country both arresting the founder of Telegram and being a major ...
Pavel Durov's potential charges are now clear—but their link to free-speech issues is less so. The difference between Mark Zuckerberg and Pavel Durov’s free speech problems Skip to main content
PARIS (Reuters) -Pavel Durov, the Russian-born founder of messaging app Telegram, was arrested in France as part of an investigation into crimes related to child pornography, drug trafficking and ...
Anatoly Durov (1887–1928), a Russian animal trainer; Lev Durov (1931-2015), a Soviet theatre and film actor; Andrei Durov (b. 1977), a Russian professional footballer; Pavel Durov (b. 1984), a Russian entrepreneur & VK.com creator; Nikolai Durov (b. 1980), a Russian mathematician and programmer; Valery Durov (born 1945), a Russian philologist ...
* Durov, whose fortune was estimated by Forbes at $15.5 billion, left Russia in 2014 after refusing to comply with government demands to shut down opposition communities on his VKontakte social ...