A BBC investigation has discovered girls’s nude pictures shared at the social media app Telegram with out their consent on a large scale.
Within the cut up 2d Sara discovered a nude photograph of her have been leaked and shared on Telegram, her existence modified. Her Instagram and Fb profiles have been added, and her telephone quantity integrated. All of sudden she used to be being contacted through unknown males inquiring for extra photos.
“They made me really feel like I used to be a prostitute as a result of [they believed] I might shared intimate photos of myself. It supposed I had no price as a lady,” she says.
Telegram has lengthy been well liked by pro-democracy protesters in nations with media censorship. Customers can put up with out sharing their identify or telephone quantity, and create public or non-public teams with as much as 200,000 individuals, or channels which will broadcast to a limiteless collection of folks.
The corporate declined an interview with the BBC, however in a remark it mentioned it does proactively observe public areas and procedure person stories about content material which violates its phrases of provider.
Telegram didn’t verify if posting folks’s intimate photographs with out consent is permitted at the platform, or whether or not they’re got rid of.
Investigation through the BBC Global Carrier Disinformation workforce.
Manufacturers: Hannah Gelbart, Jack Goodman, Juliana Gragnani, Maria Korenyuk and Lucy Swinnen. Movie Editor: Shayma AlyssiDisinformation Editor: Rebecca Skippage
Voiceover: Hannah Gelbart
Watch a longer model on YouTube and the overall documentary on BBC iPlayer.
