Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) has announced that Telegram founder Pavel Durov is accused of facilitating terrorist activity and has been placed on an international wanted list.
Source: Latvia-based Russian media outlet Meduza
Details: The FSB said in a statement that Telegram had failed to remove content banned in Russia. It also claimed that channels, chats and bots used by Ukrainian intelligence services, as well as what it described as "terrorist and extremist organisations", to coordinate sabotage, cyber fraud and other crimes continued to operate on the platform.
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The FSB also claimed to have uncovered a bot-based recruitment scheme. It claimed that Ukrainian intelligence services, posing as young women, contacted young Russian men and recruited them to carry out attacks and acts of arson.
