BBCNEWS The Media Show September 4, 2024
To do that, let's begin with mike isaac, tech correspondent for the new york times, who's in san francisco. We didn't quite know a lot from the very beginning. We understood that durov was detained, and it was pretty clandestine in the beginning. Then later, the french prosecutors let out a few different reasons. According to a sort of brief statement, it was facilitating child pornography, human trafficking, drug trafficking, a sort of vague reference to encryption issues on the app. So it was kind of a laundry list of issues. More broadly, mike, were you surprised that this happened in franc...