diff --git a/src/viewmodels/ChatterboxViewModel.ts b/src/viewmodels/ChatterboxViewModel.ts
index 56b2e50949244d8b2826a56ecf8f9afb4db22589..50504e4b9e053b912a8480b403674ca389c4b057 100644
--- a/src/viewmodels/ChatterboxViewModel.ts
+++ b/src/viewmodels/ChatterboxViewModel.ts
@@ -72,7 +72,8 @@ export class ChatterboxViewModel extends ViewModel {
             },
             events: {
                 "m.room.message": 80,
-            }
+            },
+            redact: 90
         } : null;    
         const roomBeingCreated = this._session.createRoom({
             type: 1, //todo: use enum from hydrogen-sdk here