The founder of the messaging app Telegram, Pavel Durov, stated that a year later, the criminal investigation against him is still struggling to find anything that he or Telegram did wrong. Durov assured that his moderation practices align with industry standards, and Telegram has always responded to every legally binding request from France.

Durov's arrest provoked widespread condemnation from the cryptocurrency community, human rights groups, and freedom of expression activists, who accused the French government of arresting the founder of Telegram to pressure him into censoring the platform.