Telegram to Work With UK Child Safety Group to Scan Content for Sexual Abuse Material

The app will integrate tools from the Internet Watch Foundation, which previously reported that its outreach efforts had been largely ‘ignored.’

In this photo illustration, the Telegram logo is displayed on a number of screens in London on Aug. 26, 2024. Leon Neal/Getty Images

Telegram has agreed to deploy tools from an internet watchdog to prevent child sexual abuse imagery from being spread on its platform.

On Dec. 4, the UK-based Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) announced that the social media platform is using the foundation’s tools to detect, disrupt, remove, and block child sexual abuse imagery.