Tesla CEO Elon Musk has reacted to Telegram app’s billionaire founder and CEO Pavel Durov’s arrest in France.
Durov was reportedly arrested at the Bourget airport outside Paris at around 8 pm after he flew in from Azerbaijan. As per reports, he has been arrested allegedly for a lack of moderators on Telegram. The police believe this has enabled criminal activity to persist unchecked on the app.
Reacting to the news of Durov’s arrest, Elon Musk posted a Grok message from his account on X talking about the arrest, saying, “Check out this ad for the First Amendment. It is very convincing.”
His latest tweet is a video of Durov talking to Tucker Carlson about freedom of speech online and him being happy about Musk buying Twitter. He coupled the video with ‘#FreePavel’.
Musk reshared another post, from an account called ‘OSINT defender’, talking about the arrest. This time he captioned the post saying, “POV: It’s 2030 in Europe and you’re being executed for liking a meme.”
Since then, Musk has posted multiple times on the arrest. One post captioned ‘ Dangerous times’ showed a post listing different countries’ apparent “attack” on free speech. That particular post said, “Free speech is under attack all across the globe. Now is the time to fight.”
At the time of writing this article, the call for freeing Durov has taken over social media and is growing stronger with many people throwing their weight behind the arrested CEO.
