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Macron loves Telegram. French judges hate it. – POLITICO

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France’s president is an avid user of the app and POLITICO saw he was online “recently.” That didn’t shield Telegram CEO Pavel Durov from arrest. PARIS — Open the Telegram chat of anyone in the French political orbit and you’ll notice lawmakers, cabinet members and presidential advisers online or recently connected. The encrypted messaging app is avidly used within political and media circles — including by French President Emmanuel Macron himself. On Monday, while Telegram founder Pavel Durov was in French police custody, the president was shown as having been connected to the messaging platform “recently,” a former MP with the French president's number showed POLITICO on their phone. Macron has been a Telegram user since the early days of his first presidential campaign. Nearly a decade later, the app remains widely used by both cabinet members and political officials of all ranks and parties, particularly within pro-Macron circles. Durov, the Russian-born founder and CEO of Telegram

PARIS — Open the Telegram chat of anyone in the French political orbit and you’ll notice lawmakers, cabinet members and presidential advisers online or recently connected. The encrypted messaging app is avidly used within political and media circles — including by French President Emmanuel Macron himself. On Monday, while Telegram founder Pavel Durov was in French police custody, the president was shown as having been connected to the messaging platform “recently,” a former MP with the French president's number showed POLITICO on their phone. Advertisement Advertisement Macron has been a Teleg

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