According to data published on the official Telegram website, 2,810,095 groups and channels have been blocked from the application since the beginning of this November, and on Thursday, November 13 alone, 519,645 groups and channels were blocked from the application, which is the highest number recorded for the number of channels and groups deleted from the application within a day since last February. On February 5, 490,433 groups and channels were also deleted.

The data also indicates that since the beginning of 2025, than 34 million and 913 thousand channels and groups have been deleted on the application, including 207,772 channels and groups linked to terrorism.

Telegram indicated that since 2015 the monitoring process has included user complaints and machine learning-based monitoring, and at the beginning of 2024 these efforts were enhanced with monitoring tools based on artificial intelligence.

“Telegram” is an application that allows exchanging messages, making calls, and sending media files in multiple formats. It was founded by Pavel Durov, founder of the VK social networking network, in 2013. The application has than one billion active users.

Source: Novosti