Despite banning thousands of accounts every day, videos and pictures of children being sexually abused are shared on WhatsApp on a wide scale. The encrypted messaging platform, owned by Facebook, said it “has a zero-tolerance policy around child sexual abuse” and “actively bans accounts suspected of sharing this vile content.” (Financial Times)

Talking point: In September, Israeli researchers warned Facebook that WhatsApp had many active group chats sharing child pornography. However, according to The Financial Times’ analysis, many chats were still active as recently as this week. For its part, WhatsApp has banned around 130,000 such accounts over the past 10 days. But the biggest issue is the messaging app’s main feature: its end-to-end encryption. Meant to protect user privacy, it also means the company itself cannot see users’ messages, complicating things when it comes to monitoring illegal content. Currently, it can only look through group chat names and user profile photos. Some tech experts suggest that WhatsApp disable encryption on groups above a certain size, or implementing a weaker kind that would allow it to search chats for known child-abuse images.