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

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov blames an extortionist for planting kid intersexual maltreatment worldly (CSAM) successful a nationalist chat to get the app temporarily removed from Apple's App Store connected Monday night. "Apple removed Telegram from the App Store earlier contacting us," Durov says successful a station connected X. "This creates a imaginable systemic hazard for each mobile app that hosts user-generated content. If an app utilized by much than a cardinal radical tin beryllium removed from the App Store without anterior warning, immoderate app tin be."

Durov adds, "Extortionists person recovered a mode to manipulate Apple into overreacting." Apple didn't instantly respond to The Verge's petition for comment.

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