The contentious messaging service Telegram has agreed to collaborate with an internationally renowned organization to prevent the spread of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) after years of disregarding requests to enroll in child safety programs.
Major online services use the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) to help them identify, eliminate, and stop the spread of CSAM.
Telegram had consistently declined to participate in it or any comparable plan.
However, Telegram has declared a U-turn, four months after its creator Pavel Durov was detained in Paris for allegedly failing to regulate extreme content.
While calling Telegram’s decision “transformational,” the IWF cautioned that it was only the beginning of a “much longer journey” for the app.
