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There is a panic over a Telegram
French authorities arrested Telegram Founder Pavel Durov for alleged links to child pornography and drug dealing and accused him of complicity in crimes that take place on the app. Durov is currently free on bail. Durov’s book, ‘Crimes on the Telegram app’, was leaked by the US government to the public last year after Durov…
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Durov was arrested for his part in a criminal investigation
Pavel Durov, CEO of messaging platform Telegram, has been arrested in France for his alleged role in a child pornography case. Durov was arrested on Saturday in connection with a probe into whether Telegram contributed to the distribution of child pornography. “At the heart of the case is the lack of moderation and cooperation of…
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The Telegram CEO is under scrutiny about child sexual abuse images and drugs
Russian billionaire Pavel Durov, the CEO of messaging app Telegram, was arrested in France on Sunday in connection with a criminal investigation into the platform’s failure to cooperate with law enforcement requests. The investigation is centred around a number of charges including money laundering, violation of import and export laws, possession and distribution of child…
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Steven Ballmer says he wants to buy TikTok
The House of Representatives has passed a bill to ban China-based social media platform TikTok and other similar apps. The bill, which passed by 352 votes to 352, seeks to ban platforms that “coerce, induce or facilitate child pornography”. TikTok’s parent firm ByteDance is also under fire over allegations of child pornography and human trafficking…
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Two democrats are in a primary for an open US House seat
US senator Tim Kaine, a close ally of Joe Morrissey, has endorsed his daughter’s campaign to run for US Congress in Virginia. Joe is a convicted sex offender who has been serving time in jail since 2016 for possessing child pornography. Earlier this week, he confirmed that he and his wife got married over the…
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25 more years of imprisonment is what the US prosecutors want for R. Kelly
US singer R Kelly was found guilty on two counts of sexual abuse and one count of production of child pornography by a jury in Chicago on Wednesday. He was sentenced to 30 years in New York’s jail for similar crimes. He was convicted on five counts of sexual assault and one count of possessing…
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3 former executives of the social network will testify Wednesday at the House
Twitter executives told a US congressional committee that they did not collude with the government to stop a report on former US Vice President Hunter Biden’s laptop from being published. The report was banned by Twitter in April 2020 over concerns of child pornography and child pornography trafficking. Biden, who died in April 2019, had…
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The sex abuse case against R. Kelly was dropped by the Chicago prosecutor.
The Cook County state’s attorney’s office in the US has dropped the sexual assault charges against American singer-songwriter R Kelly, who was convicted of child pornography in a federal case in 2017. “While this may not be the result…they were expecting, due to the sentences that Mr Kelly is facing…justice has been served,” Cook County…
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The pope died at a young age.
In 2002, Pope Benedict XVI asked his predecessor, John Paul II, to deal quickly with priests accused of sexual abuse because he wanted all accusations to be routed to his office. The rules also made it a church crime to download child pornography and allowed the pope to remove a priest without a formal Vatican…