According to a video shared by KOL Mario Nawfal on X, Telegram founder Pavel Durov once said on The Tucker Carlson Interview: "Every time we come to the United States, we receive too much attention from the FBI and other security agencies.
The last time I went to the United States, I brought an engineer who worked at Telegram with me, and cybersecurity officials or agents tried to secretly hire my engineer behind my back. They were curious about which open source libraries were integrated into Telegram's application and tried to convince him to use certain open source tools as backdoors.
I personally have experienced similar pressure in the United States. Every time I go to the United States, two FBI agents will greet me at the airport and ask me questions.
My understanding is that they want to establish a relationship so that they can better control Telegram."