How to remove a leak from Telegram

What Telegram removes and what it doesn’t

Telegram handles reports about public channels, bots, sticker sets and public groups. It doesn’t moderate private chats or private groups and doesn’t process requests about them. A public channel opens from a t.me link without an invite, a private one only with an invite link.

Telegram’s rules ban the non-consensual publication of sexual material. So you can report not only as the copyright owner, but also as the person in the images.

If the leak sits in a public channel or a bot hands it out, you have somewhere to report it.

Reporting in the app

The quickest route is the Report option on the message itself. These reports go to Telegram’s moderators. Anyone can send one: you don’t need to hold the rights.

• Android: tap the message.
• iPhone: press and hold the message.
• Desktop and web: right-click the message.

Choose Report and a reason. You can add a comment: say briefly that this is your content, posted without permission. You can also report a whole channel from the menu on its profile.

Copyright: email dmca@telegram.org

If you hold the rights, write to dmca@telegram.org. Telegram accepts these emails only from the copyright owner or their authorized agent.

This covers channels, bots, sticker sets and public groups. For other illegal content, write to abuse@telegram.org.

If you live in the EU, you can report under the Digital Services Act. Telegram will ask for your name, contact details and why the content is illegal.

What to include

A report is easier to act on when it shows at once what was infringed and where. Include links and show that the content is yours.

• The channel or bot link, as t.me/name or @name.
• Links to the specific messages. In a channel, you can copy a message link from the message menu.
• A link to the original: your profile or the post where you published it.
• The six elements of a DMCA notice: signature, identification of the original, addresses of the copies, contact details, the good-faith statement, and the accuracy statement under penalty of perjury.

Check that the links open without an invite: the moderator needs to see what you see.

Don’t attach the files themselves. Links and a description are enough.

Bots, stickers and search

List bots that hand out leaks the same way as channels: the bot’s @name and what it sends. If the leak was posted as a sticker set, link to the set.

These bots often ask for a username or link and send files back. Don’t start the bot yourself: its name and a screenshot of its description are enough for a report.

If Telegram search shows leak channels for your username, tell the @SearchReport bot. It takes search terms that people use to find illegal content in your country.

How long to wait

Telegram doesn’t publish timeframes. You may get no reply to an email: you will see the result when the channel, bot or post becomes unavailable.

Check your links every day or two. If nothing has changed after a week, write again and add any new links. Note each report’s date and method. The in-app report and the email work independently, so you can use both.

Private groups and re-uploads

Telegram doesn’t handle private groups, so you can’t get a leak removed from one through Telegram. Look for copies in public channels and on websites, and report them there.

After a channel is removed, the leak often reappears in a new one. Search your username again, log the new links, and say in your report that this is a re-upload.

StopNCII hashes won’t help on Telegram: it isn’t one of the service’s partners.