Rumor-fueled vigilantism has long been common throughout the world. What's missing from this story is a real attempt to compare its extent before & after Facebook was introduced in each of these countries. https://twitter.com/Max_Fisher/status/987711315002253313 …
WhatsApp is a really thorny situation due to e2e where there still are tons of things Facebook can and should do. Different kinds of things. So far, it’s doing the opposite of what it can do on FB. Desperately hoping they try very hard at leas there.
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This article blurs the two together. Which is in some ways is useful since it highlights that authoritarian govts and "do something" voices won't be satisfied as long as WhatsApp remains.
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I think the odds are high that we will soon lose consumer e2e and there will be large number of deaths as the catalyst. But it’s just not true that e2e ties all avenues of intervention. I do what I can, not sure the company has yet understood how it will go down in history.
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