“Telegram has been criticised for not acting fast enough to identify and block ISIS and other extremist groups from its platform. In February, the Counter Extremism Project said six years after the app’s founding, it remained 'a terrorists’ platform of choice for the dissemination of online extremist content'. 'The messaging application’s public-facing and private components are essential in allowing extremists the ability to propagate themselves online,' project researcher Joshua Fisher-Birch said.”