Telegram problem

ON this episode Weather forecastwe try to understand what happened here—and what might happen next. We talk about what sets Telegram apart from WhatsApp or Facebook, how Durov founded and ran a company that could have made this confrontation inevitable, and whether it will have a knock-on effect on the rest of the social internet. Or even the rest of the internet as a whole.

Then we get to the week’s news on regulation and litigation, which is more stimulating than it sounds! Yelp sues Google after years of complaints, TikTok heads to court over blackout challenge, and California’s AI safety bill heads to the governor’s desk. As Nilay likes to say, there are a lot of really significant PDFs floating around right now. We have some thoughts on PDFs.

If you want to learn more about everything we cover in this episode, here are some links to get you started, starting with Telegram:

And in legal and regulatory news:

And in the blitz round: