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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Martyn Landi

Telegram to work with internet watchdog on child sexual abuse material crackdown

A view of the Telegram messaging app, which enables mobile phone users to send encrypted messages, London. - (PA Archive)

Messaging platform Telegram is set to use industry-leading tools to detect child sexual abuse imagery on public parts of the platform as part of a new agreement with an online safety watchdog.

The platform is to work with the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), a leading organisation for finding and removing child sexual abuse imagery online, and will use the firm’s tools as part of a new agreement.

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