Telegram’s been taken out of the Apple App Store because of ‘inappropriate content’

Telegram, a messaging app that was one of the first to introduce end-to-end encryption, has been taken out of the Apple App Store for “inappropriate content.” What kind of content we can’t say but as Telegram’s CEO Pavel Durov tweets, “We were alerted by Apple that inappropriate content was made available to our users and both apps were taken off the App Store. Once we have protections in place we expect the apps to be back on the App Store.”

There is no word yet when the app will be back but it was taken down perhaps in violation of some of iOS guidelines that say there needs to be filters for objectionable material, mechanisms to report these, and the ability to block users from the service. There’s a possibility that some questionable content made it through the filters Telegram has in place. The app has been criticized in the past for the secretive nature of its messages for being the “app of choice” for terrorists.

Source: The Verge