Meta Platforms (META) will begin rolling out encryption for Facebook direct messages this month, a move that members of its safety staff have long warned would end in disaster, Jeff Horwitz and Katherine Blunt of The Wall Street Journal reports. The encryption feature was first announced in 2019 as a way to enhance users’ privacy, but employees have warned such encryption would limit the ability to detect and report child sexual abuse on Meta’s platforms. While other companies, such as Apple (AAPL), have implemented such encryption on their platforms, those services don’t often connect users with strangers.
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