Russian security services continue their crusade against Telegram and its founder, Pavel Durov. While the Kremlin and its technocrats resist definitively burying the application, aware of how popular it is in the country, the FSB – the former KGB – goes ahead, accuses its head of “collaborating with terrorist activities” and places him on the wanted list. According to the spies, the platform has done nothing to prevent Ukrainian secret services from using a dating chatbot to recruit Russian youth and adolescents with the aim of carrying out “acts of sabotage and terrorism, mass murders, and cyber fraud operations”.

Vladimir Putin had long since I had Telegram in my sightsBut it wasn't until this week that Russia formally declared war on it. Russian authorities have slowed the app down so much that it barely works for its more than 60 million users in the country. The Kremlin accuses its founder, Pavel Durov, of breaking the law, but he maintains that the Russian government's true objective is to push citizens toward a newly created national messaging service overseen by the secret services. The move has not only generated unrest on the streets but also within the military, where many soldiers have complained that the platform is vital for communications on the front lines and for drone defense.

Accustomed to living in a hostile environment since his arrival on the political front lines, Pedro Sánchez has developed undeniable adaptability skills. He always has a trick up his sleeve when it seems that the multiple crises his government has had to face have him on the ropes. He is a master of surprise, but, moreover, like Johan Cruyff on the Barça bench, he has a silver spoon in his mouth. How else can one explain that the world's leading tech gurus have fallen head over heels for the Moncloa strategy? First Elon Musk (X) and then Pavel Durov (Telegram). They have gone for the jugular of the Spanish presidentHe once announced that he would prohibit access to social media for those under 16. And Sánchez hasn't even bothered to hide his satisfaction at having struck a nerve.Let the techno-oligarchs bark, Sancho, it's a sign that we're riding."," he wrote precisely on social media (a phrase, by the way, that doesn't appear on the Quixote(although many – it seems Sánchez included – attribute it to himself).

The divorce between Donald Trump and Elon Musk, with exchanges of reproaches and very serious accusations, has left in the background another recent movement that also involves the tech mogul and affects us more directly as users of digital platforms, to the point that it should make us rethink the way we communicate in the age of AI, if we are even slightly concerned about our privacy.

He obtained the intimate images from women's private profiles on OnlyFans, a platform where users can only view such content if they pay a regular subscription to the person posting it. The application's rules prohibit downloading and sharing the photos and videos, but this man allegedly bypassed them. Furthermore, he not only downloaded the content illegally but also shared it through another app, Telegram.