Overview
- Telegram vanished from App Store search results Monday night and returned within about an hour after Apple said a review found child sexual abuse material.
- Apple said it restored the listing after Telegram removed the offending content and banned the user who posted it.
- Telegram confirmed Apple reported a single account and pointed to hundreds of thousands of prior takedowns this year to show its moderation activity.
- CEO Pavel Durov alleged a ‘takedown extortion’ trick in which an attacker edited old messages with AI-modified illegal content to trigger the removal.
- The episode briefly blocked new iOS downloads, left existing users working, slightly moved TON/Gram markets, and sharpened debate over app-store enforcement and platform risk.