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By Global Disinformation Team BBC World Service
A BBC investigation has found that women's intimate pictures are being shared to harass, shame and blackmail them on a massive scale, on the social media app Telegram.
WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS CONTENT OF A SEXUAL NATURE
In the split second Sara found out a nude photo of her had been leaked and shared on Telegram, her life changed. Her Instagram and Facebook profiles had been added, and her phone number included. Suddenly she was being contacted by unknown men asking for more pictures.
"They made me feel like I was a prostitute because [they believed] I'd shared intimate pictures of myself. It meant I had no value as a woman," she says.
Sara, not her real name, had shared the photo with one person, but it had ended up in a Telegram group with 18,000 followers, many from her neighbourhood in Havana, Cuba. She now fears strangers in the street may have seen her naked. "I didn't want to go out, I didn't want to have any contact with my friends. The truth is that I suffered a lot."
She's not alone. After months of investigating Telegram, we found large groups and channels sharing thousands of secretly filmed, stolen or leaked images of women in at least 20 countries. And there's little evidence the platform is tackling this problem.
Thousands of miles from Cuba, Nigar is having to adjust to a new life.
She's from Azerbaijan, but says she has been forced to leave her homeland. In 2021, a video of her having sex with her husband was sent to her family, and then posted in a Telegram group.
"My mum started crying and told me: 'There's a video, it was sent to me'," she says. "I was devastated, absolutely devastated."
The video was shared in a group with 40,000 members. In the footage, Nigar's now ex-husband's face is blurred but hers is clearly visible.
She believes her ex secretly filmed her to blackmail her brother, a prominent critic of Azerbaijan's president. She says her mother was told the video would be released on Telegram unless her brother stopped his activism.
"They look at you as if you are a disgrace. Who cares if you were married?" says Nigar.
Nigar says she confronted her ex-husband about the video and he denied making it. We tried to get a comment from him, but he didn't reply.
Nigar is still struggling to move on with her life: "I can't recover. I see therapists twice a week," she says. "They say there is no progress so far. They ask if I can forget it, and I say no."
The pictures of Nigar and Sara were both reported to Telegram, but the platform did not respond. Their experience is far from unique.
The BBC has been monitoring 18 Telegram channels and 24 groups in countries ranging from Russia to Brazil, and Kenya to Malaysia. The total number of subscribers is nearly two million.
Personal details like home addresses and parents' phone numbers were posted alongside explicit pictures.
We saw group administrators asking members to send intimate images of ex-partners, colleagues or fellow-students to an automated account, so they could be published without revealing the identity of the sender.
Telegram now says it has more than half a billion active users worldwide - that's more than Twitter - with many attracted by its emphasis on privacy.
Millions moved to Telegram in January 2021 from WhatsApp, which changed its privacy terms.
Telegram has long been popular with pro-democracy protesters in countries with media censorship. Users can post without sharing their name or phone number, and create public or private groups with up to 200,000 members, or channels which can broadcast to an unlimited number of people.
Despite Telegram's reputation for privacy, only the "secret chat" option provides end-to-end encryption, which ensures just the two people talking can see the message. It's the default setting on secure chat apps like Signal and WhatsApp.
What's behind Telegram's growing popularity?
The platform also attracts users seeking a less regulated space, including those who have been banned from other platforms.
"According to Telegram and its owner, they don't want to censor users," says Natalia Krapiva, tech legal counsel at digital rights group Access Now.
But our research has shown this light-touch approach to moderation has led Telegram to become a haven for the leaking and sharing of intimate images.
Telegram does not have a dedicated policy to tackle the non-consensual sharing of intimate images, but its terms of service make users agree "not to post illegal pornographic content on publicly viewable Telegram channels, bots, etc".
It also has an in-app reporting feature across both public and private groups, and channels where users can report pornography.
To test how rigorously Telegram enforced its policies, we found and reported 100 images as pornography via the in-app reporting feature. One month later, 96 remained accessible. We could not locate four others, as they were in groups which we could no longer access.
Disturbingly, while we were investigating these groups, an account from Russia also tried to sell us a folder containing child abuse videos for less than the price of a coffee.
We reported it to Telegram and the Metropolitan Police, but two months later the post and the channel were still there. The account was only removed after we contacted the Telegram media team.
Despite its lenient moderation, Telegram does take action against certain content.
After Apple briefly removed Telegram from its app store because of videos like the ones we were offered, Telegram took a more proactive stance on child abuse images. The platform also co-operated with EU crime agency Europol in 2019 to eliminate a huge amount of Islamic State content that had proliferated on the platform.
"We know that Telegram can remove and [has] been removing terrorist-related content or some kind of very radical political content," says Dr Aliaksandr Herasimenka, researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute.
But the removal of intimate images appears not to be a priority.
We spoke to five Telegram content moderators on condition of anonymity. They told us they receive reports from users via an automated system, which they said they sort into "spam" and "not spam".
They said they don't proactively search for intimate images and, as far as they know, Telegram doesn't use artificial intelligence to do that either. This lack of action has led some women to take steps themselves.
Joanna found a naked image of herself from when she was 13 years old in a notorious Malaysian Telegram group.
She created a fake Telegram profile to join the group, where she anonymously searched for nude pictures and reported them. She also shared her findings with her friends.
Amid intense media pressure, the group was eventually closed down. But during the course of our investigation, we found at least two duplicate groups sharing the same kind of images.
"Sometimes you just feel so helpless, because we tried to do so much to remove these groups. But they're still coming up, so I don't know if there's an end to it, honestly," says Joanna.
Telegram declined an interview with us, but in a statement it told us it does proactively monitor public spaces and process user reports about content which violates its terms of service.
Telegram did not confirm if posting people's intimate images without consent is allowed on the platform, or whether they are removed.
The rollout of ads on some public channels on Telegram - along with investment - has signalled that founder Pavel Durov is intending to monetise the platform .
This is likely to increase pressure on Telegram and its libertarian founder to fall more in line with social media rivals such as WhatsApp, which has started to introduce polices against sharing intimate pictures.
It remains to be seen how long the company will resist greater moderation as it moves into new markets and starts to generate revenue.
For the women whose reputations have been destroyed and lives damaged by the sharing of their intimate images on Telegram, change cannot come soon enough.
Story by Lucy Swinnen, Jack Goodman, Hannah Gelbart, Maria Korenyuk and Juliana Gragnani.
Disinformation Editor: Rebecca Skippage
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Tumblr said last year it was banning "adult content" from its platform in order to make "a better, more positive" place. But the policy change caused some users to abandon the site .
The new policy went into effect December of 2018 , and resulted in the deletion of any content portraying " real-life human genitals or female-presenting nipples." Some hoped that the sale of Tumblr to a new company in August would result in the ban's reversal, but the new owners have said they're keeping the ban on NSFW (not safe for work) content in place.
Reaction to Tumblr's announcement was swift and critical across social media. More than 665,000 people have signed a Change.org petition to "make Tumblr rescind their adult content ban."
For many, Tumblr was seen as a safe space used for exploration and self-expression. 
" I frequently got messages from folks who saw my work and said it helped them understand part of themselves better," an anonymous Tumblr user told The Washington Post . "That's primarily what I saw on Tumblr, in my curated bubble: women and LGBT creators exploring sexual concepts that they didn't feel comfortable sharing anywhere else."
Dozens of new Twitter accounts popped up from former Tumblr users who said they were switching social media sites as a result of the new policy. But while Twitter is mainly a platform for short text blurbs and sharing links, Tumblr emphasizes blogging with a mix of images, videos, GIFs, and creative writing.
Other blogging platforms reported seeing an influx of new users since Tumblr announced its policy change.
Here are some alternatives to Tumblr emerging in light of the ban on adult content:
While the design of Newgrounds may be old-school (it's been around since 1999), the site prides itself on being wholly independent where it allows "everything for everyone."
"Some of you might be dismayed at the thought of more lewd content on NG while others are super excited," a post welcoming Tumblr users says. "The good news for everyone is that we're seeing a lot of REALLY TALENTED artists joining up and not everything they post is NSFW."
Pillowfort.io is a user-friendly space that emerged from people " complaining about the limitations and flaws of these (other) sites, yet lamenting that there was nowhere better to go."
Unfortunately, Pillowfort is in beta and costs a small fee to join, but you can try out the platform as a demo user on Pillowfort's website. You may have issues accessing it though — I got an error message when I tried to set up my trial because of the unusually "high amount of traffic" the site is getting.
Dreamwidth is a free platform for "creative folk" who want to share artwork and creative writing. 
"W e'd like to take a moment to reassure all y'all that we have your backs ," a post welcoming Tumblr users says. " To the newcomers: we're happy to have you join us. Welcome aboard!"
Mastodon is a decentralized social platform, meaning that its thousands individual communities exist on separate servers, but they all exist under one network. In response to Tumblr, Mastodon created a post with reasons to choose its platform as your new social media site.
"It's a completely decentralised social network which combines the best bits of Twitter and Tumblr, but the technology is structured in a way whereby it can never be shut down," a post advocating the switch to Mastodon says.
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Last week, Scout Willis, the daughter of actors Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, went topless on Twitter in protest against the photo-sharing service Instagram's restrictive policy on nudity.
The 22-year-old posted a series of photographs of herself walking through New York with her nipples exposed. Willis captioned one topless photo: "Legal in NYC but not on @instagram" and used the hashtag "#freethenipple" beneath another.
Twitter allows such content because it has a significantly less stringent attitude to naked images. So which social media networks allow nudity and which do not? 
Instagram In its terms of use , Instagram states that users "may not post violent, nude, partially nude, discriminatory, unlawful, infringing, hateful, pornographic or sexually suggestive photos or other content". 
Yet sexually suggestive photos abound on the service. The Independent 's Lynne Enright notes that Willis "takes umbrage with the fact that Instagram seems fine with the objectification of women, allowing pictures of semi-nude women with captions like ' big titty broads ', as long as a nipple tassel (real or digital) covers the areola".
Facebook Facebook's terms state that "Facebook has a strict policy against the sharing of pornographic content and any explicitly sexual content where a minor is involved. We also impose limitations on the display of nudity". But it goes on to clarify that in spite of this, "we aspire to respect people's right to share content of personal importance, whether those are photos of a sculpture like Michelangelo's David or family photos of a child breastfeeding".
Facebook has long struggled to determine what kinds of images it should allow. In 2012, the company drew criticism when a leaked document revealed the site's moderators had been told to ban images of breastfeeding if the nipples were exposed. Simultaneously, the site allowed "graphic images" of animals if shown "in the context of food processing or hunting as i
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