Telegram Moderation Overview

Telegram blocks tens of thousands of groups and channels daily and removes millions of pieces of content that violate its Terms of Service, including incitement to violence, sharing child abuse materials, and trading illegal goods.

Since 2015, moderation has combined user reports with proactive monitoring powered by machine learning. In early 2024, this effort was further enhanced with cutting-edge AI moderation tools.

Telegram enforces a zero-tolerance policy for Child Sexual Abuse Materials (CSAM). Since 2018, public images are automatically checked against a hash database of CSAM banned by our moderators over the past decade.

In 2024, we expanded this database with hashes from organizations like the Internet Watch Foundation. Telegram publishes daily transparency reports on the removal of CSAM content.

In addition to its proactive measures and user reports, Telegram processes thousands of reports on CSAM from global third-party organizations via automated takedown addresses:

• abuse@telegram.org
• stopCA@telegram.org

The table lists the top four NGOs that submitted takedown reports to Telegram in 2024.

Calls to violence and terrorist propaganda have no place on Telegram. Since 2016, Telegram has published daily transparency reports on the removal of terrorist content. Telegram’s anti-terrorism efforts have been recognized by Europol.

Since 2022, Telegram has significantly scaled its efforts in partnership with organizations like ETIDAL, the Global Center for Combating Extremist Ideology. Through its collaboration with ETIDAL alone, Telegram’s moderators have removed over 100 million pieces of terrorist content.