Paolo RedaelliGizmodo highlights the findings of a new ProPublic report on WhatsApp’s content moderation system. What they found was that there are at least 1,000 WhatsApp content moderators employed by Facebook’s moderator contract firm Accenture to review user-reported content that’s been flagged by its machine learning system. “They monitor for, among other things, spam, disinformation, hate speech, potential terrorist threats, child sexual abuse material (CSAM), blackmail, and “sexually oriented businesses,'” reports Gizmodo. “Based on the content, moderators can ban the account, put the user ‘on watch,’ or leave it alone.” From the report:
From: WhatsApp Moderators Can Read Your Messages – Slashdot
What a surprise, don’t you think? I already wrote about it in italian (here WhatsApp non ti legge, ma ti spia)
That’s why it is important to avoid it. Use Telegram, Session or Briar.
