Australia’s eSafety Commissioner has launched civil penalty proceedings against Telegram in the Federal Court, over claims that it failed to remove terrorism-linked content. Interestingly, this comes just a day after Russia accused founder Pavel Durov with aiding terrorism as well. Australia takes Telegram to court over alleged pro-terror contentAustralia’s eSafety Commissioner launched civil penalty proceedings against Telegram in Federal Court on Thursday. It stated that Telegram failed to remove accounts, groups and channels that share such content or detect known extremist footage. Russia charged Durov over Telegram’s alleged terrorist activityAMBCrypto previously reported that Russia’s Federal Security Service had accused Telegram founder Pavel Durov of helping facilitate terrorist activity.