After years of ignoring pleas to sign up to child protection schemes, the controversial messaging app Telegram has agreed to work with an internationally recognised body to stop the spread of child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

Telegram, which for years has had a reputation as a platform used to trade child sexual abuse material, has for the first time agreed to partner with a larger international watch group to combat such content. The U.K.-based Internet Watch Foundation ...

Telegram to work with internet watchdog on child sexual abuse material crackdown - The messaging platform will use tools from the Internet Watch Foundation to help detect and remove abuse material.