Did you intentionally post an misleading tweet six hours ago, @durov, and covered it up with the later fudging tweet after the French government called you out? 
Clarification for those who haven't followed the full Romania story.
Today a flurry of fake news and AI forgeries flooded the web falsely accusing France of interfering with today's elections and even nvading Romania (to use @durov's stylistic, "guess from where").
In this context of an avalanche of false news, @durov published a tweet that can only be interpreted as France asking Telegram now/recently to silence "conservative" (i.e. anti Europe, pro-Russia) telegram channels. The context was undisputably related to the current elections. Read it for yourself.
After the French MFA denied doing any of that and called Durov out, he published a second tweet in which backs up his statement with an alleged request from French intelligence "this spring", while he was in France, to "ban conservative voices in Romania".
Durov was arrested last August and freed/left France on 15 March 2025. So such a request, if indeed real, would have come before mid March when the candidates for the current elections weren't registered yet.
The conversation with the intel chief, if real, would have also been in the context of significant evidence that the December (cancelled) elections in Romania were interfered with by non-organic and algorithmic gaming on social media. Such request, if real, might have been legitimate or not depending on the timing and content.
For the world to assess for itself if the so-called request from French intelligence was il/legitimate, @durov should explicitly state what exactly was requested of him (what channels? He was asked to do what with them? When was this conversation?) . He's already said a, there's no reason to withhold b. Otherwise it's clear he's playing for one side in this information war. ("Guess which one")
Today a flurry of fake news and AI forgeries flooded the web falsely accusing France of interfering with today's elections and even nvading Romania (to use @durov's stylistic, "guess from where").
In this context of an avalanche of false news, @durov published a tweet that can only be interpreted as France asking Telegram now/recently to silence "conservative" (i.e. anti Europe, pro-Russia) telegram channels. The context was undisputably related to the current elections. Read it for yourself.
After the French MFA denied doing any of that and called Durov out, he published a second tweet in which backs up his statement with an alleged request from French intelligence "this spring", while he was in France, to "ban conservative voices in Romania".
Durov was arrested last August and freed/left France on 15 March 2025. So such a request, if indeed real, would have come before mid March when the candidates for the current elections weren't registered yet.
The conversation with the intel chief, if real, would have also been in the context of significant evidence that the December (cancelled) elections in Romania were interfered with by non-organic and algorithmic gaming on social media. Such request, if real, might have been legitimate or not depending on the timing and content.
For the world to assess for itself if the so-called request from French intelligence was il/legitimate, @durov should explicitly state what exactly was requested of him (what channels? He was asked to do what with them? When was this conversation?) . He's already said a, there's no reason to withhold b. Otherwise it's clear he's playing for one side in this information war. ("Guess which one")
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