Telegram CEO says an extortionist planted CSAM in a chat to get it pulled from the App Store

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Pavel Durov claims attackers post illegal content and manipulate reports to ‘trigger the removal of legitimate communities.’ Pavel Durov claims attackers post illegal content and manipulate reports to ‘trigger the removal of legitimate communities.’ Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Telegram CEO Pavel Durov blames an extortionist for planting child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in a public chat to get the app temporarily removed from Apple’s App Store on Monday night. “Apple removed Telegram from the App Store before contacting us,” Durov says in a post on X. “This creates a potential systemic risk for every mobile app that hosts user-generated content. If an app used by more than a billion people can be removed from the App Store without prior warning, any app can be.” Durov adds, “Exto