Telegram to employ new tools to tackle child porn after founder’s arrest

LONDON: Messaging app Telegram will deploy new tools to prevent the spread of images of child sexual abuse after teaming up with the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), the UK-based charity said Wednesday.

The social media platform, which claims to have more than 950 million active users per month, will use tools and data from the IWF “to detect, disrupt, remove and block child sexual abuse imagery,” the charity said.