Facebook Messenger may ban mass-forwarding of messages

Facebook has done this before: it did it with WhatsApp, following an outbreak of lynchings sparked by viral social media hoaxes.

Report calls for web pre-screening to end UK’s child abuse ‘explosion’

The IICSA report cited “unprecedented levels of depravity” and said that encryption is getting in the way of current screening.

Facebook encrypted messaging will ‘create hiding places for child abuse’

Child safety groups penned an open letter to Facebook, urging a delay on encrypted messaging until sufficient safeguards are in place.