India has become the latest country to grow frustrated at the end-to-end encryption on Facebook-owned tool WhatsApp, claiming it cannot access "objectionable" content and punish those sending it. UK and the Australia have made the same complaint, while Facebook, Google and Twitter have formed a joint forum to combat extremism on their platforms. In May, a WhatsApp group administrator was arrested in India for manipulating the image of the country's prime minister, Narendra Modi.
India has become the latest country to grow frustrated at the end-to-end encryption on Facebook-owned tool WhatsApp, claiming it cannot access "objectionable" content and punish those sending it. Australia and the UK have made the same complaint, while Facebook, Google and Twitter have formed a joint forum to combat extremism on their platforms. In May, a WhatsApp group administrator was arrested in India for manipulating the image of the country's prime minister, Narendra Modi.