Telegram has been beneath unprecedented strain to scrub up its platform this yr, after its founder Pavel Durov was arrested in France and faces fees over the alleged dangerous content material shared on his messaging app.
After first announcing 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 instruments.”
The announcement is a part of a newly-launched moderation page Telegram has created to higher talk its moderation efforts to the general public, in keeping with a post from Durov’s Telegram channel. In accordance with Telegram’s moderation web page, there’s a noticeable improve 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.
