Telegram: Why won’t you take my nudes down? The BBC’s Global | Telegram Beta

Telegram: Why won’t you take my nudes down?

The BBC’s Global Disinformation Unit has discovered intimate pictures of women are being shared and viewed, without their consent, by tens of thousands of people on the social media app Telegram.

The women believe their pictures were stolen, taken illicitly, or leaked as an act of ‘revenge porn’. Sometimes they’re shared for financial gain, but in some countries they’re being used as a political tool to silence women.

"So as an experiment we found 100 images and reported them as porn to Telegram, one month later we found that 96 images were still there and the other four pictures were in groups that we couldn't get back into." — 00:07:54