EU Tightens Oversight of WhatsApp; Elon Musk Questions App\u2019s Security
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\nThe European Commission has designated Meta\u2019s WhatsApp platform as a \u201cvery large online platform\u201d after its Channels feature surpassed 45\u202fmillion monthly active users in the European Union, bringing it under stricter content rules under the Digital Services Act (DSA).<\/p>\n
This designation means WhatsApp must now comply with enhanced obligations to assess and mitigate systemic risks, including those related to human rights, privacy and illegal content, with tighter EU oversight of its operations and reporting requirements.<\/p>\n
Under the DSA, platforms of this scale face rigorous content moderation and transparency duties as the bloc seeks to better regulate digital services that influence public discourse and protect users in the EU.<\/p>\n
In a separate but related development, Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has publicly criticized WhatsApp\u2019s security, amid a US lawsuit alleging that Meta misled users about the privacy of its \u201cend\u2011to\u2011end encryption.\u201d Musk urged users to switch to X Chat\u2014a messaging service associated with his X platform\u2014claiming WhatsApp is \u201cnot secure\u201d and suggesting even other secure messengers could be questionable, though Meta rejects these claims.<\/p>\n
Meta and WhatsApp leadership have strongly defended their encryption protocols, asserting that end\u2011to\u2011end encryption means only participants can read messages and that the accusations are unfounded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
EU Tightens Oversight of WhatsApp; Elon Musk Questions App\u2019s Security —————————————– The European Commission has designated Meta\u2019s WhatsApp platform as a \u201cvery large online platform\u201d after its Channels feature surpassed 45\u202fmillion monthly active users in the European Union, bringing it under stricter content rules under the Digital Services Act (DSA). This designation means WhatsApp must …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12589],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai-news"],"yoast_head":"\n