What Pavel Durov thinks about social media

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Founder of Telegram, and before it of VK.

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1. 30 Sept 2025

   Our readingCurate your own information sources, or an algorithmic feed decides what is important and you end up consuming the same memes and news as everyone else.

   Their wordsSo it's extremely important to curate the information sources that you have, so that you wouldn't be somebody who is left to the will of AI-based algorithmic feed telling you what's important so that you end up consuming the same information, the same stuff, the same memes, the same news as everybody else.

   ↗Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature | Lex Fridman Podcast #482youtube.com 3rd of 28 in this recording

   Interesting

3. 30 Sept 2025

   Our readingThe French investigation of him should never have been started; a criminal case is the wrong tool for regulating social media.

   Their wordsThe investigation itself should have never been started. It's an absurd and harmful way of solving an issue such as complicated as regulating social media. It is just the wrong tool.

   ↗Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature | Lex Fridman Podcast #482youtube.com 14th of 28 in this recording

   Interesting