"He has kind of an old-school cyber-libertarian world view where technology is there to set you free," Maréchal said. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been a driving force in markets for the past few weeks. READ MORE "And that set off kind of a battle royale for control of the platform that Durov eventually lost," said Nathalie Maréchal of the Washington advocacy group Ranking Digital Rights. In the United States, Telegram's lower public profile has helped it mostly avoid high level scrutiny from Congress, but it has not gone unnoticed.
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