Pavel Durov 🗽 Anyone under 25 can win €100,000 for an essay on digital freedoms . The Youth Liberty Prize 2026 supports young thinkers ready to defend freedom from threats like censorship, surveillance, digital IDs and CBDCs. Stand for freedom and win ✊ Full details: https://www.libertyprize.org/ Please open Telegram to view this post VIEW IN TELEGRAM www.libertyprize.org Youth Liberty Prize 2026 Leading young minds globally tackle the problem of digital interventionism through the lens of the Austrian School of Economics 11.3K 31.5K 9.44K 6.59K 5.94K 1.84M views Pavel Durov , 21:25 Pavel Durov Group admins can assign tags to users — or embrace the chaos and let them assign their own. 🔥 0:09 This media is not supported in your browser VIEW IN TELEGRAM Please open Telegram to view this post VIEW IN TELEGRAM 3.74K 22.3K 6.42K 4.93K 3.02K 1.63M views Pavel Durov , 01:20 Pavel Durov 0:10 This media is not supported in your browser VIEW IN TELEGRAM ⚡️ You can now create agentic bots in just 2 taps 🤖 Ask the devs of the services you use to support it 👇 https://core.telegram.org/bots/features#managed-bots Please open Telegram to view this post VIEW IN TELEGRAM 63.1K 17K 5.61K 4.36K 1.73K 1.54M views Pavel Durov , 20:18 Pavel Durov 🇪🇺 The EU wants to force mandatory ID checks on anyone using social media — and ban people under 18 from accessing it. To that end, the EU Commission spent over a year building an “age verification app”, which its president pompously unveiled yesterday. Today, this app got hacked in just 2 minutes . But don’t rush to laugh at EU bureaucrats. Their age verification app was hackable by design — it trusted the device (that’s instant game over). Unless the EU is run by clowns 🤡 , this is their real plan: Step 1 — Present a “privacy-respecting” but hackable app. Step 2 — Get hacked ( *YOU ARE HERE* ). Step 3 — Remove privacy to “fix” the app. Result — a surveillance tool sold as “privacy-respecting”. The EU bureaucrats needed an excuse to silently start turning their “privacy-respecting” age verification app into a surveillance mechanism over all Europeans using social media. Today’s “surprising hack” just handed this excuse to them. 🦇 Stay vigilant! Please open Telegram to view this post VIEW IN TELEGRAM Cybernews Experts slam EU age verification app after easy 2-minute bypass The EU’s age verification app is under fire after researchers revealed simple methods to bypass its protections in minutes. 16.7K 30.9K 12.8K 7.96K 2.72K 1.72M views Pavel Durov , 02:31 Pavel Durov This media is not supported in your browser VIEW IN TELEGRAM 🎁 Our new Login Widget is a gift to developers: they can not only quickly authorize users, but also request users’ phone numbers and permission to message them on Telegram. 🆓 Sign-up, login, phone verification , and a follow-up communication channel in one — completely free . Please open Telegram to view this post VIEW IN TELEGRAM 2.72K 18.5K 6.32K 3.91K 1.66K 1.5M views Pavel Durov , 00:58 Pavel Durov This media is not supported in your browser VIEW IN TELEGRAM ✅ The Telegram Login SDK now supports native iOS and Android apps. 📱 🤩 Only Telegram lets developers verify users’ phone numbers for free — something that’s otherwise expensive. 🫰 🍴 Expect more apps adding “Continue with Telegram"! 🚀 Please open Telegram to view this post VIEW IN TELEGRAM 3.19K 21.4K 5.8K 3.91K 2.93K 1.44M views Pavel Durov , 23:57 Pavel Durov 🇫🇷 Macron’s France is losing legitimacy as it weaponizes criminal investigations to suppress free speech and privacy . The U.S. Department of Justice has refused to assist France in its investigation of Elon Musk, calling the case politically motivated . 🎭 The French prosecutor’s office claims to be independent, but that is untrue: French prosecutors are hired, fired, and promoted by the government. The judicial police — who provide often misleading reports to investigative judges — are also controlled by the government. I’m under a similar investigation in France: over a dozen charges, each carrying up to 10 years in prison. Proud to stand alongside Elon Musk and others targeted by Macron's campaign against digital rights. In Macron’s France, being investigated is the new Légion d’honneur . 🎖 Please open Telegram to view this post VIEW IN TELEGRAM CNBC Justice Department refuses to assist French probe into Musk’s X, WSJ reports Musk faces questions as part of a year-long probe in France into suspected abuse of algorithms and fraudulent data extraction by X or its executives. 13.1K 25K 13.8K 5.96K 2.1K 1.71M views Pavel Durov , edited 00:01 Pavel Durov This is how the EU/UK now regulates social media: 🤐 Offer CEOs secret deals to censor dissent. 🚨 If they refuse, open criminal cases against them. 😑 When people push back, say it's "all for the children". "Protecting children" has become the standard legal/PR cover. 🎭 Please open Telegram to view this post VIEW IN TELEGRAM 7.08K 35.4K 9.14K 8.63K 7.2K 1.62M views Pavel Durov , edited 16:25 Pavel Durov France's "Agency for Secure Documents" was hacked. Names, addresses, emails, and phone numbers of 19 million people — leaked from a single government database. Future leaks will be even more catastrophic if the French government gets what it wants: access to encrypted chats and Digital IDs of social media users. 5.03K 34.1K 13.4K 8.9K 2.66K 1.61M views Pavel Durov , edited 22:55 Pavel Durov The apartment in Russia where I lived 20 years ago received a summons for “Suspect P. V. Durov”. They must be suspecting me of defending Articles 29 and 23 of the Russian Constitution — which guarantee freedom of speech and the right to private correspondence. Proud to be guilty! 😏 Please open Telegram to view this post VIEW IN TELEGRAM 17.4K 102K 48.1K 19.1K 10.8K 1.45M views Pavel Durov , 17:06 Pavel Durov ⚡️ In one week, TON fees will drop 6× — to just 0.00039 TON (~$0.0005) per transaction, fixed regardless of network load. 🆓 Soon after most transactions go fully feeless. Zero commission. 🪙 MTONGA Please open Telegram to view this post VIEW IN TELEGRAM Telegram Pavel Durov 🚀 The TON blockchain just got upgraded and is now 10× faster. ⚡️ Block rate increased 6×. ⏱ Transactions are now instant, subsecond. 🪙 This was step 1 of 7 to Make TON Great Again (MTONGA). Next step: cut the already low transaction fees by 6×. ✂️ 8.07K 18.2K 8.92K 6.7K 2.52K 1.2M views Pavel Durov , edited 17:12 Pavel Durov 41 kidnappings of crypto holders in France in 3.5 months of 2026 . Why? 🥖 French tax officials selling crypto owners' data to criminals (Ghalia C.) + massive tax database leaks. Now the same state also wants IDs and private messages of social media users. More data => More leaks => More victims. That’s why Telegram would rather leave the French market than give their corrupt bureaucrats access to private messages. 🐶 Please open Telegram to view this post VIEW IN TELEGRAM 7.17K 31K 22.9K 10.8K 3.65K 937K views Pavel Durov , 19:32