{"entity":"telegram","id":"ent_telegram","name":"Telegram","predicate":"founder","label":"founder","page":"https://asof.is/record/telegram/founder","as_of":"2026-11-07","summary":"As of November 7, 2026, Telegram's founder on the AsOf record is Pavel Durov, undated on the record, from 2 secondary sources (finance.yahoo.com and ca.news.yahoo.com). The record holds 1 claim on Telegram's founder, 1 still open and 0 superseded, each dated and sourced; a replaced value is closed with an end date, never deleted.","current":["clm_1BDDD4552B3E"],"latest_period":null,"claims":[{"id":"clm_1BDDD4552B3E","value":"Pavel Durov","valid_from":null,"undated":true,"valid_to":null,"published":"2026-01-03","recorded":"2026-11-01","confidence":0.8,"status":"valid","assertable":true,"superseded_by":null,"sources":[{"url":"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/meet-pavel-durov-tech-billionaire-193651512.html","tier":"secondary","publisher":"finance.yahoo.com","published_at":"2026-01-03T00:00:00+00:00"},{"url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15616276","tier":"secondary","publisher":"Wikidata","published_at":null},{"url":"https://ca.news.yahoo.com/meet-pavel-durov-tech-billionaire-080200829.html","tier":"secondary","publisher":"ca.news.yahoo.com","published_at":"2026-01-03T00:00:00+00:00"}],"evidence":{"by":"page-read","on":"2026-11-01","quote":"Pavel Durov is the founder and owner of the messaging app Telegram.","url":"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/meet-pavel-durov-tech-billionaire-193651512.html"}}],"replaced":[],"faq":[{"question":"What is Telegram's current founder?","answer":"Pavel Durov, undated on the record, from 2 secondary sources (finance.yahoo.com and ca.news.yahoo.com). The record asserts this claim as of November 7, 2026 (status valid, confidence 0.80)."}],"legend":{"dates":"valid_from: when the claim took effect (a period figure: the day its period closed). published: the earliest day a source on the record published it (a filing's filing date, a post's date; null when no source carries one). recorded: the day AsOf first held it. A figure can take effect weeks before it is published.","why_not":{},"checked_by":{"page-read":"its source page states the value and the date"}}}