A New York Times analysis of greater than 3.2 million Telegram messages from 16,000 channels discovered that the messaging platform has been “inundated” with unlawful and extremist exercise.
Particularly, The Instances discovered 1,500 channels operated by white supremacists, two dozen channels promoting weapons, and no less than 22 channels the place MDMA, cocaine, heroin and different medicine had been marketed for supply.
The corporate’s founder and CEO Pavel Durov was arrested in France final month, with authorities alleging that Telegram’s lack of content material moderation made Durov an confederate to criminal activity on the platform.
The platform subsequently updated its website to allow abuse reports, and Durov has been posting on his Telegram channel, arguing, “Utilizing legal guidelines from the pre-smartphone period to cost a CEO with crimes dedicated by third events on the platform he manages is a misguided method.”
