The past few weeks have been a wake-up call for social media companies who thought they were free to ignore the laws of the countries they operated in.
Late last month, Pavel Durov was arrested and charged in France for offences relating to his social media and messaging platform Telegram. He faces charges relating to allowing crimes to happen on the platform and refusing to hand over documents to law enforcement that he was legally required to. For those not familiar, the messaging and social media app has 900 million users and is popular with people ranging from crank
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