Telegram ignored requests to remove child pornography

NBC News reports:

Before Telegram’s CEO was arrested in France, the app had a reputation for ignoring advocacy groups fighting child exploitation.

Three of those groups, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) in the U.S., the Canadian Centre for Child Protection and the Internet Watch Foundation in the U.K., told NBC News that their communications with Telegram about child abuse material, often abbreviated as CSAM, have been largely ignored on the platform.

Pavel Durov, co-founder and CEO of Telegram, a messaging and news app widely used in former Soviet countries and increasingly popular among the far-right in the US and groups banned from other platforms, remains in custody of French authorities, who arrested him on Saturday.

Read the full article. Telegram’s own TOS states “we do not process requests” related to illegal content.

News: Three leading child safety groups each tell me that Telegram, unlike every other major platform, completely ignores all of their requests to work with them to remove CSAM. Possible context for Durov’s arrest.https://t.co/pTyClsRHeJ

— Kevin Collier (@kevincollier) August 28, 2024

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