WhatsApp has sought to present itself as a private messaging app designed for communication between individuals or small groups.
TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports Matt Jones, WhatsApp anti-spam engineering team lead, hinted on this on Wednesday as the company battles to curb spread of fake news and misinformation.
He said the social messaging app was not built with the aim “to give people a megaphone”, but expected to be used for private messaging.
“We are not here to give people a megaphone, we are here for private messaging,” he said.
WhatsApp, publishing data as part of a white paper on “stopping abuse” that was launched on Wednesday in India, said it is deleting 2 million accounts globally per month.
Jones revealed that around 95% of the 2 million accounts banned each month were as a result of “abnormal WhatsApp behaviour” detected by the company, rather than from user reports.
The company had earlier limited the number of people to whom a message could be forwarded, in same effort to curb spread of fake news and misinformation using the platform.
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