Since the fall of 2024, Telegram has now collaborated fully with the authorities so that its platform is a safer place less open to criminal activities. After the accusation in the summer of 2024 of its founder, Pavel Durov, for France, due to moderation deficiencies, the platform changed its rules.
She is committed to collaborate better with the authorities of the various European countries, provided that the request for information comes from an independent judge, as provided by law. The result was not long to arrive and the requests exploded in the space of a few months, although the group ensures that the previous deficiencies were linked to the misuse of the authorities.
Average requests
Between January and March 2025, these same requests for France remained stable. In its latest transparency report, Telegram explains that you have communicated information of 668 IP/Telephone numbers, affecting 1,425 users.
The figures in the average of the last quarter of 2024, where he received 673 IP addresses or telephone numbers, for 1,386 users in question.
For a year, the figures show an improvement in the relationships between the telegram and the judicial authorities. At the beginning of 2024, only 4 IP/Telephone numbers were processed for 17 interested users.
However, Telegram had explained to Tech & Co that the authorities had not taken into account “the appropriate communication channel” that in the fall of 2024, the channel activated within the framework of European regulation on digital services, the DSA.
The platform indicated “ignore” why there were no applications.
Anyway, Pavel Durov had communicated on the issue of moderation, wishing to make him a “source of pride” shortly after his accusation. It is always under the influence of an investigation for “complicity in the transmission in an organized gang of image of minors who present a child psychiatrist” and “complicity in drug trafficking.” Illegal activities that would only represent “0.001% of users” of Telegram.
Source: BFM TV
