Telegram CEO Pavel Durov has explained the app's brief App Store removal, blaming "takedown extortionists" and accusing Apple of removing Telegram before contacting the company.
Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov has broken his silence on the app's brief removal from Apple's App Store, giving his account of what triggered the takedown and criticising Apple for acting without warning. Durov shared his explanation in a post on X shortly after Telegram was restored to the App Store.
What led to the removal?
Telegram disappeared from Apple's App Store in several countries, leaving many iPhone and iPad users unable to find the app through search. It was restored within hours, and Apple later said the removal followed the discovery of content that violated its rules against child sexual abuse material.
Durov offered a different framing of the episode. He said a user had planted illegal, AI-modified pornographic content in a public Telegram group by editing an old message in an active chat, which meant the content was "effectively hidden from the group's members, preventing them from seeing/reporting it."
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