Korea Communications Standards Commission-Telegram's first face-to-face meeting... "Response to the principle of zero tolerance for deepfakes"

Korea Communications Standards Commission cooperates with high-ranking Telegram officials for the first face-to-face meeting last week

to respond to illegal information such as digital sex crimes and drugs

Telegram "Actively consulting with the National Police Agency and the National Emergency Management Agency"

Telegram accepts all 148 requests to delete illegal videos.

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Telegram, which has been cited as a key distribution channel for deepfake sex crime videos, held its first face-to-face meeting with the Korea Communications Standards Commission.

Telegram also left open the possibility of broad consultations with the Korean investigation authorities, saying it would strongly respond to illegal information with zero tolerance.

Reporter Kim Tae-min's report.

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The Korea Communications Standards Commission, which has continued to knock on the doors of overseas platform companies to respond to the spread of deepfakes, sat face to face with Telegram officials for the first time.

Senior officials from Telegram and others attended two face-to-face meetings over the weekend to share a stronger response plan.

[Ryu Hee-rim / Chairman of the Korea Communications Standards Commission: One of the most important points is that we will apply zero tolerance to illegal information distributed on Telegram in the future.]

In addition to digital sex crimes, we have decided to continue cooperation on various illegal information distribution such as drugs and gambling.

In particular, he promised to strengthen practical cooperation with the Korean National Police Agency, raising expectations that the pace of digital sex crime investigations will accelerate in the future.

[Lee Dong-soo / Director of Digital Sexual Crime Review: If a person is involved in a crime through Telegram, we believe that the person's ID or phone number can be provided during cooperation with the National Police Agency on Telegram]

Telegram has accepted all 148 requests by the Korea Communications Standards Commission to delete illegal sex crime videos until this month.

On top of that, as a separate hotline that can communicate 24 hours a day is opened, it is expected that the deletion and blocking of illegal information will take place faster.

I'm Kim Tae Min of YTN.