Telegram’s moderation removed over 187,000 groups and channels on Monday, one of its highest daily totals in recent weeks.

MOSCOW: The Telegram messaging app blocked over 187,000 groups and channels in a single day. Monday’s total of 187,634 blocked entities marks one of the highest daily figures in recent weeks.

This is the fourth-highest daily count for February, surpassed only by the numbers recorded on January 22, January 23, and February 15. Since the start of February, Telegram has removed a total of 2.04 million groups and channels.

Within that February total, 7,116 were identified as “terrorism-related.” Since January 2026, the platform’s overall moderation efforts have led to nearly 7.5 million blocked groups and channels.

Of that near 7.5 million total, 27,382 channels were blocked for terrorism-related content. Telegram’s moderation system combines user complaints with proactive monitoring using machine learning.

The platform supplemented these tools in early 2024 with new AI-powered moderation technologies. Telegram was created in 2013 by Pavel Durov, the founder of the Russian social network VKontakte.

It now boasts over one billion monthly active users worldwide.

 The Sun Malaysia