Pavel Durov reveals that Telegram was briefly removed from the App Store last night after a takedown extortionist planted AI-modified illegal content by editing an old message in a public group chat, ...
This exposes a structural flaw beyond Telegram: any platform hosting UGC is one bad-faith report away from removal if the app store acts before verification. The asymmetry is the real risk—reporting takes seconds, appeals take days—which makes extortion econom