Thanks to the joint cooperation between the Global Center for Combating Extremist Ideology (Etidal) and (Telegram) platform, during the period from January 1st to March 30th 2023, a total number of 6,004,218 pieces of extremist content has been removed, and 1,840 channels spreading and promoting extremist ideologies belonging to three terrorist organizations (ISIS – al-Qaeda – Hayat Tahrir al-Sham) have also been closed.
Etidal’s team was able to identify and monitor the activity of the three terrorist organizations in Arabic on (Telegram) platform, which consist of: 2,773,902 pieces of extremist content in 477 channels belonging to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, 1,807,215 in 1,040 channels belonging to ISIS, and 1,423,101 in 323 channels belonging to al-Qaeda.
On 9 January 2023, the Etidal’s Monitoring Team recorded a peek in broadcasting activity on Telegram with 451,911 pieces of content being shared and refered to, and on 27 March, a peek in account creation with over 101 channels created in a single day.
It is worth noting that the joint cooperation between the Global Center for Combating Extremist Ideology (Etidal) and (Telegram) platform continues for the second year in a row, bringing the number of what has been removed from February 2022 until now to 21,026,169 extremist content and closing 8,664 extremist channels.
