![]() Channels can be used by a single administrator or a group of administrators to broadcast public messages to large audiences. Telegram is one of the first instant messaging platforms to offer the Channel feature. Nearly all of these channels share, on average, 100 links to explicit photos and videos that contain pornographic as well as CSAM every 24 hours. ![]() Some of these public as well as private channels on Telegram, which share such content, have as many as 20,000 subscribers. Though such explicit content, including CSAM, is freely available to view and download through these Telegram channels, it is not available in countries such as the US and France, the investigation has revealed. ![]() Globally, Telegram has more than 700 million daily active users. India is the largest market for Telegram, with about 75 million users, followed by Russia and the US. Google Play has strict rules in place to prevent the hosting of such apps which offer or store explicit photos and videos, pirated content, and other content not permissible in India. Once a user clicks on the links shared through the Telegram channels, they are redirected to download the app of these cloud data and storage solutions through Android Package Kit, or APK, files to avoid Google Play Store's detection, the investigation showed. These objectionable photos as well as videos are stored and hosted mostly on China-based cloud data and digital storage solutions such as RB Disk, Tera Byte, Video Hoot and Kuk Link, ET's investigation has shown. It did not, however, mention the specific steps it took to contain the dissemination of such content in India. Telegram said it had banned 1,467 groups and channels related to child abuse on October 4 alone and a total of 6,651 banned in the first four days of the month. The company also did not respond to whether it had ever approached law enforcement agencies in India to report such content. The company did not respond to queries on the total number of public and private channels operating on Telegram in India and across the globe. Responding to ET's specific queries on steps taken to stop the spread of pornographic and child sexual abuse material through its platform, Telegram said that it processes "legitimate requests to take down illegal public content" and acts upon "such groups and channels on valid reporting".
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