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Telegram apologizes to South Korea and takes down smutty deepfakes

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Feed Name: The Register (Security)

Date Published: 2024-09-04

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Simon Sharwood

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South Korea’s Communications Standards Commission reports that Telegram removed 25 deepfake sex-crime videos and offered cooperation via a hotline, amid a government push to counter an escalating deepfake crisis; this follows international pressure after Telegram’s CEO was detained in France, while Human Rights Watch criticizes the South Korean government’s historically slow response to digital sex crimes.

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