Telegram founder accuses Meta of sabotaging access in India with BGP hijacks

The founder of Telegram, Pavel Durov, has suggested Meta might be using its investment in Indian telco Jio to sabotage the messaging service. Durov dropped his theory on X, writing: "Indian telecom Reliance is sabotaging access to Telegram for millions of users OUTSIDE India (including the UAE) via a rogue method called BGP hijacking." Such attacks see miscreants publish inaccurate routing announcements that associate a service with the wrong IP address. Because routers share info with each othe