dozens of miles of images y videos of womencontent explicitthey were shared sin are consentbetween groups and channels Telegram.
The event took place this Wednesday and the organization AI Forensics, denounced the responsibility of the platform in Italia y Spain.
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The organization stated in a study that they identified about 25 thousand active users in groups y canales dedicated to sharing photos y videos of naked women, often in exchange for money.
In total, more than 80 thousand files of photos, videos y audiossome generated with artificial intelligenceon the 16 channels of Telegram analyzed for six weeks.
These contents were “mainly of a sexually explicit nature,” he said. AI Forensics a AFP.
Some included images of teenagers.
The authors of the study also detected other practices in these groups, such as “doxeo” (publication of personal data) or coordinated campaigns of harassment.
Some members sent messages of incitement to violations or mentioned images of child pornography.
Other platforms
A large number of files in circulation came from other platforms, such as TikTok, Instagram o Snapchat.
“Telegram is often used as a central redistribution platform, where content scraped, filtered or captured on other platforms is aggregated, archived and put back into circulation,” the authors note.
La oenege alert of the role of platform in the persistence of these groups.
“During the observation period, several groups were closed by Telegram only to reopen a few hours later with the same names, suggesting that Telegram’s moderation mechanisms are insufficient,” the report states.
“Telegram combines strong confidentiality features such as end-to-end encrypted messaging extreme and the accounts pseudonymswith capabilities of diffusion on a large scale,” insist the authors, who consider that this favors abusive.
The NGO recommends including Telegram in the list of “the platforms online very large” that proposes the European Digital Services Lawwhich would reinforce control.
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In response, Telegram assured AFP that “their moderation systems are more effective in preventing the mass dissemination of harmful content than those of very large online platforms.”
The company also states that prohibits “share non-consensual intimate contentincluding deepfakes pornographic”, and adds that “the moderation of pornography deepfake is complex across all platforms.”
The founder of Telegram, Pavel Durov, was charged in 2024 by the French justice system for failing to act against the dissemination of criminal content, such as images of abuse sexual to minors.
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