How messaging apps should be regulated?

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Telegram is one of the world's biggest social media and messaging platforms along with Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok and WeChat. Pavel Durov, CEO of the app is to stay in French custody until at least Wednesday - French prosecutors say. What should we read into the detention of the owner of an app? Is this a new hardline in dealing with social media? Is it a blow against free-speech?We also hear from Jesper Brodin, chief executive at Ingka which operates IKEA stores and find out what it is like in the country that was the most populous on earth?

26 Aug 5PM English United Kingdom Business

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