Durov spoke about the blocking of about 100 channels with malicious content in Telegram.

Pavel Durov, co-founder of the Telegram messenger, said that the platform daily blocks about 100 channels related to the propaganda of terrorism and ill-treatment of people. He told this in an interview with blogger Lex Friedman on YouTube on September 30.

"At Telegram, we have been actively fighting malicious content for 10 years now. We block about 100 channels of this nature every day," he said.

According to the entrepreneur, if we take into account all types of deleted content — accounts, groups, channels and publications — then almost 1 million pieces of information disappear from the platform every week.

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Earlier in the day, Durov said that in 2018 they tried to poison him. The incident occurred in a rented house when, after coming into contact with a suspicious object at the door, he suddenly felt sick, he was faced with loss of vision and hearing, severe pain and breathing difficulties. For several weeks, the entrepreneur could not walk and was recovering at home.

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