Telegram

Telegram has apologised to South Korean authorities for its handling of deepfake pornographic material shared via its messaging app, amid a digital sex crime epidemic in the country. It comes days after South Korean police said they had launched an investigation into Telegram, accusing it of “abetting” the distribution of such images. In recent weeks, a large number of Telegram chatrooms – many of them run by teenagers – were found to have been creating sexually explicit “deepfakes” using doctored photographs of young women. Authorities say Telegram has since removed such videos from its platform. In a statement to South…