Telegram plans child abuse crackdown following Pavel Durov’s arrest in Paris

Published:  Thu 5 Dec 2024

Messaging app Telegram will deploy new tools to prevent the spread of images of child sexual abuse after teaming up with the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), the UK-based charity said Wednesday.

The social media platform, which claims to have more than 950 million active users per month, will use tools and data from the IWF “to detect, disrupt, remove and block child sexual abuse imagery,” the charity said.

The move comes after Telegram’s Russian-born founder and chief executive Pavel Durov was arrested in August at a Paris airport and later charged with several counts of failing to curb extremist and terrorist content on the app.

Read the full article at Fortune.

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