was charged in France for complicity in the spread of sexual images of children and other crimes it’s a rare example of a tech leader being held liable for the way their platform is used I want to get right to the details with Bloomberg’s Allan cats according to French officials he deliberately did not respond to or reply to what they could call legitimate requests for information or for help in in other investigations that were running in criminal activities that they saw on the telegram uh Network and that’s different than the way that most other messaging services operate he had to post A5 million euro Bond uh for that so that’s about 55 million from here on out he has to check in twice a week with authorities to make sure that he’s still in France and he’s not allowed to leave the country now it goes to an investigation where the investigating magistrate will continue to look into the case and that could take you know months could take a year longer like it’s it’s really unclear how long the rest of this process might take Beyond