WhatsApp blocks accounts to halt election smear campaign in Brazil

摘要

WhatsApp has blocked hundreds of thousands of accounts of user accounts in Brazil amid the mass proliferation of fake news messages via the app in the run-up to the country's presidential elections. Speaking to Bloomberg, a WhatsApp spokesperson said: "We have cutting-edge technology to detect spam that identifies accounts with abnormal behaviour so that they can't be used to spread spam or misinformation. We are also taking immediate legal measures to prevent companies from sending mass messages via WhatsApp and have already banned accounts associated with those companies."