’Now they have leverage’: why US State Department likely behind Durov’s detention

’Now they have leverage’: why US State Department likely behind Durov’s detention “What they want to do is not kill Telegram like they wanted to kill WikiLeaks. They want to control it. And the problem was they didn’t have the ability to put sufficient pressure on Pavel to break his will as he was living in Dubai, but now, they have leverage. And I believe that’s the purpose of this prosecution,“ Mike Benz, a former Trump State Department official said. Source: Global News (EU, USA)