Telegram has been beneath unprecedented strain to wash up its platform this yr, after its founder Pavel Durov was arrested in France and faces expenses over the alleged dangerous content material shared on his messaging app.
After first asserting 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 higher talk its moderation efforts to the general public, in accordance with a submit 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 presently out on €5 million bail.
