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Why some accounts are getting banned for ‘suspicious’ group names on WhatsApp

Why some accounts are getting banned for ‘suspicious’ group names on WhatsApp

4 years ago
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https://thenextweb.com/apps/2019/11/12/why-some-accounts-are-getting-banned-for-suspicious-group-names-on-whatsapp/

Yesterday, GizChina reported some WhatsApp users are getting banned for ‘suspicious’ group names. According to a Reddit thread, a user changed a university group name to something that was indicative of child sexual abuse.

In February, WhatsApp released a whitepaper on how it fights spam and abuse without reading your messages. One of the methods the company uses to fight exploitative child content is to scan content such as unencrypted photos and group information.