I asked perhaps an obvious question: Why doesn't WhatsApp just remove misinformation?https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/coronavirus/2020/04/whatsapp-harder-forward-messages-why-not-remove-misinformation …
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They're E2E encrypted and you can't selectively decrypt messages without removing the encryption totally in its current form. This inevitably is an argument against encryption.
Yes I get that! I'm just saying that people are torching cell towers and maybe that's more important rn?
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I mean this same thing happened in India (except it involved people being murdered) and Facebook instigated the exact same forwarding feature as a fix. I don't think anyone's re-engineering the whole of WhatsApp to remove encryption any time soon.
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Yeah I mention that in the piece explicitly! And yes, I also say in the piece that I don't think it will happen. I just think they should around this tbh
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