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Kyle Becker
@kylenabecker
JUST IN: A U.S. Connection in the Arrest of Telegram Founder Pavel Durov?
Revolver News has published an original report that the U.S.-funded censorship arm The Atlantic Council had targeted Pavel Durov and Telegram two months prior to his shocking arrest in France.
The Atlantic Council had considered Telegram to be part of a "disinformation ecosystem" that had evaded Western supervision and was being "weaponized" by Russia in the War on Ukraine.
Its framing of Telegram's activity as a battlespace is consistent with NATO's 5G warfare strategy, which relies on propaganda and censorship to advance strategic objectives in the Information Warfare space.
The Atlantic Council's DFR Lab, boutique censorship think tank, produced its findings in June 2024 in a podcast entitled, "Another battlefield: Telegram as a digital front in Russia’s war against Ukraine."
"Thus we see the convenient timing that two months after the Atlantic Council (censorship cutout of the US government) singles out Telegram’s problematic refusal to censor information in the Ukraine war, Durov is arrested in France," Revolver News editorialized. "Funny how that works!"
The Revolver News report adds: "This is consistent with the findings of @MikeBenzCyber
, a former State Department official and world authority on the censorship-industrial complex. Benz has reported US government-funded outlets like Radio Free Europe singling out Telegram for attack along a similar timeline (shortly after Durov’s interview with Tucker Carlson four months ago)."
Pavel Durov was indicted by French authorities on Wednesday on a host of charges that hold him personally liable for criminal or unlawful activity on Telegram.
Durov's bail was set at 5 million Euros. He was placed on supervised release, and prohibited from leaving the country.
The Revolver News report put Durov's arrest in perspective.
"Indeed, it’s hard not to view Durov’s arrest as a trial balloon for an imminent legal offensive on @ElonMusk
, who has enraged EU authorities by refusing to cater to the censorship demands of the EU and US security establishment."
2:18 PM · Aug 28, 2024
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