Far right activists promoting murder and hate have a favourite messaging app:Hi John,

The messaging app Telegram is popular. It was the most downloaded app across iOS
and Android globally in the beginning of 2021. It is also the most popular app
amongst terror-promoting far right networks and is home to the most extreme,
genocidal and directly violent antisemitic content.

It’s past time for Telegram to act. We’ve written directly to Telegram’s CEO.
The more of us who add our names to the letter, the more likely it is Telegram
will listen.

ADD MY NAME
[[link removed]]Why do far right terrorists love Telegram so much?

Since its founding in 2013, Telegram has strongly emphasised privacy, with
founder Pavel Durov once claiming that “our right for privacy is more important
than our fear of bad things happening, like terrorism”.

Privacy is an extremely important facet of democracy, but it is not boundless,
and Telegram knows it.

In November 2019 Telegram collaborated with Europol to conduct a “coordinated
action focused on the dissemination of online terrorist content” removing over
43,000 bots and channels linked to the Islamic State terror group.

So it’s possible to act - and they’re willing to when it comes to the Islamist
terror threat.

Yet HOPE not hate researchers found that at least 120 Telegram groups and
channels have shared the racist, anti-semitic manifesto penned by the terrorist
who attacked two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in March 2019, killing
51. Telegram has taken no action against that content.

Far right terrorism is a growing threat across the globe and one that requires
new and innovative ways to combat it, but tech companies need to play their
part.

Together with Jewish community groups and allies, we’re demanding Telegram be
consistent, and act against all terror actors, including those on the far right.
Will you add your name?

ADD MY NAME
[[link removed]]Thank you for everything you do,

Roxana and the rest of the HNH campaigns team

PS. We’ve already been to Telegram’s registered office in London with a message so
big they couldn’t miss it. Watch our video from the visit here
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