Pavel Durov, Telegram's CEO, is known as "the Russian Mark Zuckerberg," for co-founding VKontakte, which is Russian for "in touch," a Facebook imitator that became the country's most popular social networking site. The fake Zelenskiy account reached 20,000 followers on Telegram before it was shut down, a remedial action that experts say is all too rare. I want a secure messaging app, should I use Telegram? 'Wild West' "He has kind of an old-school cyber-libertarian world view where technology is there to set you free," Maréchal said.
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