{"id":1025243,"date":"2026-07-31T09:17:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T03:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1025243"},"modified":"2026-07-31T09:58:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T04:28:20","slug":"australian-watchdog-files-legal-action-against-telegram-saying-it-failed-to-remove-violent-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/31\/australian-watchdog-files-legal-action-against-telegram-saying-it-failed-to-remove-violent-content\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian watchdog files legal action against Telegram, saying it failed to remove violent content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&#8217;s online safety watchdog has filed legal action against messaging app Telegram, saying the platform failed to remove extremist content including videos of white supremacist mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and the New Zealand city of Christchurch as well as Islamic State group beheadings. <\/p>\n<p>The United Arab Emirates-based app, which reports having 1 billion users worldwide, faces a fine of up to 54.6 million Australian dollars (USD 38 million) if convicted in the Australian Federal Court for \u201calleged failure to detect and remove pro-terror material,\u201d eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant said Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&#8217;s online safety watchdog has filed legal action against messaging app Telegram, saying the platform failed to remove extremist content including videos of white supremacist mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and the New Zealand city of Christchurch as well as Islamic State group beheadings. The United Arab Emirates-based app, which reports having 1 billion users worldwide, faces a fine of up to 54.6 million Australian dollars (USD 38 million) if convicted in the Australian Federal Court for \u201calleged failure to detect and remove pro-terror material,\u201d eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant said Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,80,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025255,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025243\/revisions\/1025255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}