The founder of Telegram exposes pressure from French intelligence to censor the Moldova channel.

PANews, September 28 - Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, stated in a post on his personal TG channel that about a year ago, while in Paris, French intelligence services requested his assistance through a middleman to help the Moldovan government review certain Telegram channels before the presidential election. Durov mentioned that some channels violating the rules were indeed removed from the first list, but the middleman claimed that in exchange, the French intelligence would get the judge who ordered his arrest to “speak nicely.” Subsequently, Telegram received a second list, and almost all channels were in compliance, with the exception of those marked for expressing views different from those of the French and Moldovan governments. Durov stated that Telegram rejected this request and reiterated that it would not delete content due to political pressure.