by Chris Menahan, Information Liberation:
Telegram founder Pavel Durov told Tucker Carlson in an interview released on Tuesday that he looked into setting up shop in San Francisco but changed his mind after being robbed by “three big guys” in broad daylight upon leaving from a meeting with Jack Dorsey at Twitter’s headquarters.
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New heights in American exceptionalism: the United States is the “only country” where Pavel Durov faced violence.
In an interview with US journalist Tucker Carlson, Telegram founder Pavel Durov recounted the incident in San Francisco.
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“This is the only country where I got attacked in the street,” Durov said. “It was a shock to me because I traveled a lot, that was the first place I got attacked and I thought, alright, maybe we shouldn’t look at San Francisco, maybe there are other places in America.”
Durov also said his decision not to base his company in the US was also driven by he and his employees being spied on and pressured by the feds.
In an interview with US journalist Tucker Carlson, Telegram founder Pavel Durov complained about excessive attention from the FBI and other intelligence agencies “wherever we came to the US.”
Durov told Carlson how an intelligence agency attempted to convince his employee to… pic.twitter.com/IwwbABp5EH
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“Last time I was in the US I brought an engineer that is working for Telegram,” Durov said, “and there was an attempt to secretly hire my engineer behind my back by cyber security officers or agents, whatever they are called.”
“They were curious to learn which open source libraries are integrated to the Telegram app on the client side. And they were trying to persuade him to use certain open source tools that he would then integrate into Telegram’s code that, in my understanding, would serve as backdoors.”
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