It's not actually true, of course - unless by "thousands" you mean "one or two", and by "for their tweets" you mean "for actively inciting serious violence in t

It's not actually true, of course - unless by "thousands" you mean "one or two", and by "for their tweets" you mean "for actively inciting serious violence in the middle of a riot". But it's a fairly common far right talking point, and similar claims come up a lot in certain types of anti-Western propaganda. Perhaps Durov could have been influenced by that?