The Telegram co-founder and CEO was apprehended by French authorities on Saturday at an airport near Paris.
Telegram co-founder Pavel Durov’s arrest in France on Saturday could reveal how the Kremlin tried to control the social media network, and in what ways the two are intricately linked, an expert told Euronews.
“It’s not just a news source, but it’s a kind of key messenger that is used for coordination of action at different levels, to store videos, to share large files and all this kind of things,” Christine Dugoin-Clément, a researcher at the Sorbonne Business School said.
“You’ve got a lot of channels more or less directly connected with the Kremlin or the Department of Defence of Russia”.
Watch our interview with Christine Dugoin-Clément in the video player above.