Australia is taking Telegram to court over its alleged failure to remove "pro-terror" material, including video of the Christchurch shootings, the country's eSafety commissioner has said. Inman-Grant said her agency had begun inquiring what Telegram was doing to combat terrorist and extremist material in March 2024, and had endured "five very difficult months of unresponsiveness". Though the platform later started engaging, she said it had retained a "permissive environment" for hosting extremist content that was "very easy to find". Inman-Grant noted that Australia does not issue licences for platforms like Telegram, but said "we could apply to the federal court and ask that the service be ceased". The eSafety regulator also fined Telegram A$1m in February 2025 for failing to respond on time to questions about how it was tackling child abuse and extremist material on the platform.