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Pavel Durov claimed that automated accounts edited an old message in a public group to hide illegal material. This tricky tactic bypassed normal human moderation. Bad actors are now finding clever ways to trick major app stores into taking down legitimate groups by planting prohibited files where algorithms will spot them.
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