ALBAWABA - Telegram is once again the talk of social media after South Korea announced launching an investigation on the platform over allegedly allowing the distribution of deepfake porn and AI-generated images of minors, according to Insider Paper.
Deepfake porn includes NSFW content of well-known individuals across the world by imitating their face and body doing inappropriate activities.
South Korea investigates Telegram over deepfake porn
Last month, a South Korean broadcaster claimed that several university students were running an illegal Telegram channel featuring the content mentioned above which might've triggered the investigation by local police.
The head of the investigation bureau at the National Police Agency claimed that they launched a probe to investigate the issue at hand and mentioned that they tried to reach the chatting platform but didn't respond to their concerns.
They said' "Telegram has been non-responsive to our previous requests for account information during investigations of earlier Telegram-linked crimes."
Moreover, the police claimed to have found 88 reports of deepfake porn in the last week alone.
This comes after Telegram's CEO Pavel Durov was arrested in France over multiple charges related to criminal activity on the platform, including complicity in illegal gang transactions, "laundering of crimes in an organized gang," as well as rejection to share information with authorities, the statement reads.
Durov was released from jail on a bail of $5.56 million but is still under official investigation official and is banned from leaving France.
