What Is Known About the Telegram Bot "Leonardo Daivinchik"? More Than 13 Million People Use the Dating Service, but Its Creators Remain Anonymous

What Is Known About the Telegram Bot "Leonardo Daivinchik"? More Than 13 Million People Use the Dating Service, but Its Creators Remain Anonymous

The FSB reported the detention of 46 young Russians between the ages of 12 and 22. All of them used the dating Telegram bot "Leonardo Daivinchik."

Security officials claim that the detainees were allegedly recruited by Ukrainian intelligence services to commit crimes in Russia. At the same time, in the videos that were supposed to confirm the "recruitment," it is clear that the people were not corresponding in Telegram at all.

However, that did not stop the security services from blaming Pavel Durov for everything and adding him to Rosfinmonitoring’s list of terrorists and extremists.

We explain what is known about "Leonardo Daivinchik" and how safe it is to use this and other bots.

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"Leonardo Daivinchik" is a Telegram dating bot because of which Pavel Durov was added to the list of terrorists (at least officially)

The FSB said it detained 46 users of the popular Telegram dating bot "Leonardo Daivinchik." They are young Russians between the ages of 12 and 22. All of them were allegedly recruited by Ukrainian intelligence services to commit crimes in Russia. Meanwhi…