Following the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov, questions have arisen as to why Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has not faced similar charges as Meta’s platforms, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, have also been used to spread child sexual abuse material, traffic drugs, and more.
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WhatsApp, the encrypted message bought by Meta for $19 billion in 2014, is the platform most similar to Telegram and has many of the same problems regarding the spread of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and drugs.
Proxy Impact, a firm that guides foundations and other investors, claims that in 2023, 36 million reports of CSAM were reported online, and 85 percent, or 31 million cases, were reported on Meta platforms.
The firm also criticized Meta for implementing encryption across its platforms, not just WhatsApp, saying it could make as many as 70 percent of the cases of CSAM “invisible.”
