And a screenshot provided by anti-exploitation startup AntiToxin reveals active WhatsApp groups with names like “Children 💋👙👙 ” or “videos cp” - a known abbreviation for ‘child pornography’.Ī screenshot from today of active child exploitation groups on WhatsApp. Groups with names like “child porn only no adv” and “child porn xvideos” found on the group discovery app “Group Links For Whats” by Lisa Studio don’t even attempt to hide their nature. Even without technical solutions that would require a weakening of encryption, WhatsApp’s moderators should have been able to find these groups and put a stop to them. TechCrunch’s investigation shows that Facebook could do more to police WhatsApp and remove this kind of content. TechCrunch has reviewed materials showing many of these groups are currently active. A report from two Israeli NGOs reviewed by TechCrunch details how third-party apps for discovering WhatsApp groups include “Adult” sections that offer invite links to join rings of users trading images of child exploitation.
Without the necessary number of human moderators, the disturbing content is slipping by WhatsApp’s automated systems. WhatsApp chat groups are being used to spread illegal child abuse imagery, cloaked by the app’s end-to-end encryption.
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