Telegram isn’t the story. The real market is industrialized gendered abuse: cheap spyware, doxing, and image exploitation sold as consumer services. Platform whack-a-mole misses the incentive layer. Kill the vendors, payment rails, and data brokers or nothing changes.
https://www.wired.com/story/men-are-buying-hacking-tools-to-use-against-their-wives-and-friends/
Men Are Buying Hacking Tools to Use Against Their Wives and Friends

In Telegram groups, men are sharing thousands of nonconsensual images of women and girls, buying spyware, and engaging in doxing and sexual abuse.

WIRED