Summary
WhatsApp has banned over 6 million accounts in three months in its efforts against fighting fake news and platform abuse. The company has 1.5 billion monthly active users and has banned 2 million accounts a month over the last three months. WhatsApp has built sophisticated machine learning systems to detect abusive behaviour and ban suspicious accounts at registration, during messaging, and in response to user reports.
Highlights:
- WhatsApp has built sophisticated machine learning systems to detect abusive behaviour and ban suspicious accounts at registration, during messaging, and in response to user reports.
- WhatsApp has built sophisticated machine learning systems to detect abusive behaviour and ban suspicious accounts at registration, during messaging, and in response to user reports.
- If the systems detect a similar phone number that has been recently abused or if the computer network used for registration has been associated with suspicious behaviour, it bans them before the registration