A BBC investigation has discovered ladies’s nude pictures shared on the social media app Telegram with out their consent on a large scale.
In the cut up second Sara discovered a nude picture of her had been leaked and shared on Telegram, her life modified. Her Instagram and Facebook profiles had been added, and her telephone quantity included. Suddenly she was being contacted by unknown males asking for extra photos.
“They made me really feel like I used to be a prostitute as a result of [they believed] I’d shared intimate photos of myself. It meant I had no worth as a lady,” she says.
Telegram has lengthy been well-liked with pro-democracy protesters in nations with media censorship. Users can publish with out sharing their identify or telephone quantity, and create public or non-public teams with as much as 200,000 members, or channels which may broadcast to an infinite variety of individuals.
The firm declined an interview with the BBC, however in a press release it stated it does proactively monitor public areas and course of person experiences about content material which violates its phrases of service.
Telegram didn’t verify if posting individuals’s intimate photos with out consent is allowed on the platform, or whether or not they’re eliminated.
Investigation by the BBC World Service Disinformation workforce.
Producers: Hannah Gelbart, Jack Goodman, Juliana Gragnani, Maria Korenyuk and Lucy Swinnen. Film Editor: Shayma AlyssiDisinformation Editor: Rebecca Skippage
Voiceover: Hannah Gelbart
Watch an prolonged model on YouTube and the complete documentary on BBC iPlayer.
