What’s going on in Telegram

As the source noted, the arrest in France of Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov begins to affect the popularity and rating of the program; more and more people are downloading the messenger.

The company’s founder and CEO was arrested in France on Saturday over allegations that he allowed illegal activity to flourish on his app by failing to adequately monitor cases involving drug trafficking, money laundering and child sexual abuse.

In general, according to the latest data, law enforcement He is accused of Article 12 of the Penal Coderefusal to provide information upon request from the competent authorities, complicity in the storage and distribution of pornographic images of minors, complicity in the distribution of narcotics, computer hacking schemes, complicity in fraud by an organized group, including concealment of crimes.

Despite the seriousness of the allegations. There is an increase in the number of Telegram downloadsThis brought it to second place on the American App Store’s social networking chart and increased its downloads on iOS by 4%.

As the source noted, Telegram’s popularity did not increase immediately after Durov’s arrest. This may be due to the fact that “many people learned about the news only while catching up on games they missed over the weekend, or third-party sources of information for app stores were slightly behind in ranking changes.”

Applications skyrocket in France, where Durov was detained 1st place in the category “Social networks” It became the 3rd application overall in the App Store.