The Telegram administration has not started moderating users’ private chats. The information that it is possible to complain about the content of private correspondence is not true. This is confirmed by the data in the updated FAQ section of the website.
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“All Telegram chats and group chats are private to participants. We do not process any requests related to them. But sticker sets, channels, and bots on Telegram are publicly available,” it says.
Telegram says that if a user sees a bot, channel or sticker set that violates copyright, they can always submit a complaint. This request can only be made by the copyright owner or an agent authorized to act on their behalf.
The messaging team continues to moderate public bots, channels, and sticker sets to make Telegram safer. Users’ chats are protected by encryption, but Telegram “could be forced to provide data” if the issue turns out to be “serious and widespread enough.”
They said that by then the company had “disclosed 0 bytes of user data to third parties, including governments.”
On September 6, Telegram updated its moderation policy. Due to the reorganization of answers in the FAQ section, some users decided that the messenger administration began to moderate the content of private chats based on users’ requests. This was reported, for example, by The Verge.
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