The head of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk, praised the founder of the Telegram messenger, Pavel Durov, for his support of freedom of expression. The billionaire published the corresponding post on his social network X.
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Durov, in his post on X, noted that he was proud that Telegram supported free speech “long before it became politically safe.” He stressed that the company’s values do not depend on US election cycles.
“Today other platforms say that they will now have less censorship. But the true test of their new values will come when the political winds shift again. “It’s easy to say you support something when you don’t risk anything,” Durov said.
“Keep it up,” Musk wrote in the Telegram founder’s post. Durov responded by saying that the Tesla boss himself “took risks, supporting freedom of speech, long before it became fashionable.”
This is not the first time that Musk has supported the creator of Telegram. At the end of December, Musk commented on Durov’s statement that the messenger had made a profit: the company’s revenue by 2024 exceeded $1 billion, the number of Telegram Premium subscribers tripled and reached 12 million, and the advertising revenues grew “several times.” “Good job,” Musk wrote in response to Durov’s post.
Last August, when the head of Telegram was detained in France, the billionaire published a post with the hashtag #FreePavel and also responded to French President Emmanuel Macron’s post, demanding to provide “more details about the reasons for the arrest” of Durov. .
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