Telegram has been underneath unprecedented strain to wash up its platform this 12 months, after its founder Pavel Durov was arrested in France and faces fees over the alleged dangerous content material shared on his messaging app.
After saying a crackdown in September, Telegram now says it has eliminated 15.4 million teams and channels associated to dangerous content material like fraud and terrorism in 2024, noting this effort was “enhanced with cutting-edge AI moderation tools.”
The announcement is a part of a newly launched moderation web page Telegram has created to raised talk its moderation efforts to the general public, based on a put up from Durov’s Telegram channel. In response to Telegram’s moderation web page, there’s a noticeable enhance in enforcement after Durov’s arrest in August:
Durov’s French case remains to be pending, however he’s at present out on €5 million bail.
