Chennai:<\/strong> Instant messaging app, WhatsApp<\/a> on Thursday said it will be rolling out a set of new features globally, the most significant one being 'communities' wherein users will be able to create a community around similar groups to make messaging more direct. This move will also provide the community admins with more control in addition to providing them with the convenience of sending messages to multiple groups in a single click.

WhatsApp said this could have a huge impact in areas such as education, healthcare, and helping with social causes, experts however flagged some concerns around how it could be misused to magnify hate speech. The company said they have built in checks and balances around this, and the company has only announced its launch to get more feedback around it and the product is still not live.

Interestingly, WhatsApp also said that they were going to roll out a feature around restricting forwarded messages to just one group instead of five.

A spokesperson for WhatsApp said that the idea to build the Communities feature came largely from the pandemic where people used the platform to provide relief and mobilise help - be it for food, medication, hospital beds, oxygen and so on. The company's learning from the pandemic was to help people organise better and as a result help organise groups better.

\"What Communities is going to do is allow anyone to create a community of their own and bring these groups together,\" the spokesperson told ET. \"And then they will have options such as announcements where the community administrator posts it and everybody gets to see it in one go, rather than copy pasting on different groups. It also provides a directory of linked groups and the third part is it allows within the community for different group members to create another group to see whether they have any aligned interests or not. So in a lot of ways, it is taking the world of different disparate groups or related groups.\"

Mark Zuckerberg<\/a>, Chief Executive Officer of Meta<\/a> said the company was going to start rolling this out slowly but expects it to be an important evolution for WhatsApp and online communication overall. \"I think community messaging will take the basic protocols behind one-to-one messaging and extend them so you can communicate more easily with groups of people to get things done together,\" he said.

WhatsApp said it is also making several improvements to how groups work -- whether or not they are part of a Community. It said these features are rolling out in the coming weeks so people can start trying them out even before Communities are ready. \"We’ve built the ability for admins to delete messages sent from anyone in a group to address errant or problematic messages,\" Will Cathcart, Head of Meta's WhatsApp tweeted on Thursday. \"We’re excited to announce that reactions are coming to WhatsApp. We’ll also support larger file sharing up to 2GB at a time and 32 person group conference calls you can start with just one tap.\"

This is where things got tricky for privacy experts. They said that Meta-owned WhatsApp is looking to bring in some of their admin control over content moderation to WhatsApp. A Meta group member can report hate speech, and its admin can take down content or put a troublesome member on ‘post approvals’ so each post needs approval before appearing. In contrast, they said a WhatsApp admin has very little power except for eviction (or switching to ‘admin-only’ where no one else can post).

\"This is worrying because even ‘accidental admins’ have been arrested and even jailed for posts in a WhatsApp group, even though the Bombay HC ruled in April 2021 that admins can’t be held liable for posts by group members,\" cyber and tech policy expert Prasanto K Roy said.

Another
cyber lawyer<\/a> who did not wish to be named said that this admin issue was concerning as it could hold the admin squarely responsible for anything that is said on a sub-group.

\"Right now, I have an admin who's supposed to be held liable if there is any improper content from a particular group,\" he said. \"What happens in a group within a group? Obviously, the larger group may not have anything to do with the subgroup where the content is actually inflammatory or abusive. WhatsApp will probably have to draw some sort of distinction to at least identify a person who will be admin in charge of a subgroup, for the purpose of imposing liability so at least some content can be moderated.\"

WhatsApp on its part said that on an average they ban between 1.75-2 million accounts, most of it being driven by their own efforts and through anything picked up by the algorithm as 'spammy behavior.' the spokesperson said that even with the
Community feature<\/a>, users can report abusive or inflammatory messages to WhatsApp. Being an end-to-end encrypted platform, WhatsApp said it has no control over what is said in groups or communities and is giving the users the power to report incorrect behaviour and is looking to proactively address those reports when they come up.

\"All the rules and best practices which are already in place are not going away anywhere,\" the person said. \"In fact, if anything with all of the measures, they are only going to get stronger. If there is somebody who is going to repeatedly try to use the community feature as a broadcast group, that is not something that would be encouraged. And we have checks and balances in place, which would address that.\"
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WhatsApp的新社区功能触发一个新的行

另一个网络不愿具名的律师说这个管理问题有关,因为它可以持有管理直接负责任何子群说。

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钦奈:即时消息传递应用程序,WhatsApp周四表示,它将推出一系列新功能在全球范围内,最重要的一个是“社区”,用户可以创建一个社区类似的团体使消息更直接。此举也将为社区管理员提供更多的控制除了为他们提供方便发送消息到多个组织在一个单一的点击。

WhatsApp说这可能产生巨大影响的地区如教育、医疗、和与社会原因,帮助专家然而标记一些担忧它如何可能被滥用来放大仇恨言论。公司表示,他们已经建立了在这种制衡,公司只有宣布推出得到更多的反馈,产品还不活。

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有趣的是,WhatsApp还表示,他们将推出一个功能在限制转发消息只是一个群体,而不是5个。

WhatsApp发言人说,这个想法建立社区特性很大程度上来自于大流行,人们使用这个平台提供救济和动员帮助——对食物、药物、病床、氧气等。公司的大流行是帮助人们学习组织更好的结果帮助组织更好。

“社区所要做的就是允许任何人创建自己的社区,将这些组在一起,”该发言人告诉等。”然后他们会选择公告等社区管理员职位,每个人都看到它,而不是复制粘贴在不同的组。它还提供了一个目录的相关组织和第三部分是它允许在社区内不同群体成员创建另一组看是否他们有共同的利益。所以在很多方面,它在不同的世界不同的团体或相关团体。”

马克•扎克伯格的首席执行官表示,该公司将开始滚动了缓慢但希望它是一个重要的进化WhatsApp和在线交流。“我认为社区消息需要一对一的消息和背后的基本协议扩展它们,这样你就可以更容易与人交流一起把事情做好,”他说。

WhatsApp说也做了一些改进组织是如何工作的——它们是否一个社区的一部分。它说,这些特性在未来几周推出人们可以开始尝试社区之前准备好。“我们建造的能力管理员删除发送的消息从一群人到地址错误或有问题的消息,“将Cathcart元WhatsApp负责人周四在推特上。“我们来WhatsApp兴奋地宣布的反应。我们还将支持更大的文件共享一次2 gb和32人集团电话会议你可以只有一个水龙头。”

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这正是事情变得棘手的隐私专家。他们说Meta-owned WhatsApp希望引进一些管理控制内容适度WhatsApp。元组的成员可以报告仇恨言论,管理员可以删除内容或把麻烦的成员发布审批的所以每个帖子需要批准之前出现。相反,他们说WhatsApp管理几乎没有权力除了驱逐(或切换到“admin-only”,没有人可以post)。

“这是令人担忧的,因为即使是“意外管理员”已被逮捕,甚至因职位WhatsApp集团虽然孟买HC统治在2021年4月,管理员不能被小组成员承担的帖子,“网络和科技政策专家Prasanto K罗伊说。

另一个网络的律师不愿具名的说这个管理问题有关,因为它可以持有管理直接负责任何子群说。

“现在,我有一个管理员是谁应该承担责任如果有任何不当内容从一个特定的群体,”他说。“在一群一群发生了什么?显然,更大的组织可能没有与子群的内容实际上是炎症或虐待。WhatsApp可能要画一些区别至少确定一个人将管理负责一个小组,实施责任为目的的至少一些内容可以主持。”

WhatsApp在其部分说他们之间禁止平均1.75 -200万个账户,大多数是由自己的努力,通过任何由该算法为“垃圾行为。这位发言人说,即使社区功能,用户可以向WhatsApp报告虐待或炎性消息。作为端到端加密平台,WhatsApp说它没有控制在团体或社区和说的是给用户报告错误的行为的权力,希望积极解决这些报告时出现。

“所有的规则和最佳实践,已经不会去任何地方,”这位人士说。“事实上,如果任何的措施,他们只会变得更强。如果有谁要反复尝试使用社区的功能作为一个广播组,不是会被鼓励。我们有制衡到位,这将解决这个问题。”
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Chennai:<\/strong> Instant messaging app, WhatsApp<\/a> on Thursday said it will be rolling out a set of new features globally, the most significant one being 'communities' wherein users will be able to create a community around similar groups to make messaging more direct. This move will also provide the community admins with more control in addition to providing them with the convenience of sending messages to multiple groups in a single click.

WhatsApp said this could have a huge impact in areas such as education, healthcare, and helping with social causes, experts however flagged some concerns around how it could be misused to magnify hate speech. The company said they have built in checks and balances around this, and the company has only announced its launch to get more feedback around it and the product is still not live.

Interestingly, WhatsApp also said that they were going to roll out a feature around restricting forwarded messages to just one group instead of five.

A spokesperson for WhatsApp said that the idea to build the Communities feature came largely from the pandemic where people used the platform to provide relief and mobilise help - be it for food, medication, hospital beds, oxygen and so on. The company's learning from the pandemic was to help people organise better and as a result help organise groups better.

\"What Communities is going to do is allow anyone to create a community of their own and bring these groups together,\" the spokesperson told ET. \"And then they will have options such as announcements where the community administrator posts it and everybody gets to see it in one go, rather than copy pasting on different groups. It also provides a directory of linked groups and the third part is it allows within the community for different group members to create another group to see whether they have any aligned interests or not. So in a lot of ways, it is taking the world of different disparate groups or related groups.\"

Mark Zuckerberg<\/a>, Chief Executive Officer of Meta<\/a> said the company was going to start rolling this out slowly but expects it to be an important evolution for WhatsApp and online communication overall. \"I think community messaging will take the basic protocols behind one-to-one messaging and extend them so you can communicate more easily with groups of people to get things done together,\" he said.

WhatsApp said it is also making several improvements to how groups work -- whether or not they are part of a Community. It said these features are rolling out in the coming weeks so people can start trying them out even before Communities are ready. \"We’ve built the ability for admins to delete messages sent from anyone in a group to address errant or problematic messages,\" Will Cathcart, Head of Meta's WhatsApp tweeted on Thursday. \"We’re excited to announce that reactions are coming to WhatsApp. We’ll also support larger file sharing up to 2GB at a time and 32 person group conference calls you can start with just one tap.\"

This is where things got tricky for privacy experts. They said that Meta-owned WhatsApp is looking to bring in some of their admin control over content moderation to WhatsApp. A Meta group member can report hate speech, and its admin can take down content or put a troublesome member on ‘post approvals’ so each post needs approval before appearing. In contrast, they said a WhatsApp admin has very little power except for eviction (or switching to ‘admin-only’ where no one else can post).

\"This is worrying because even ‘accidental admins’ have been arrested and even jailed for posts in a WhatsApp group, even though the Bombay HC ruled in April 2021 that admins can’t be held liable for posts by group members,\" cyber and tech policy expert Prasanto K Roy said.

Another
cyber lawyer<\/a> who did not wish to be named said that this admin issue was concerning as it could hold the admin squarely responsible for anything that is said on a sub-group.

\"Right now, I have an admin who's supposed to be held liable if there is any improper content from a particular group,\" he said. \"What happens in a group within a group? Obviously, the larger group may not have anything to do with the subgroup where the content is actually inflammatory or abusive. WhatsApp will probably have to draw some sort of distinction to at least identify a person who will be admin in charge of a subgroup, for the purpose of imposing liability so at least some content can be moderated.\"

WhatsApp on its part said that on an average they ban between 1.75-2 million accounts, most of it being driven by their own efforts and through anything picked up by the algorithm as 'spammy behavior.' the spokesperson said that even with the
Community feature<\/a>, users can report abusive or inflammatory messages to WhatsApp. Being an end-to-end encrypted platform, WhatsApp said it has no control over what is said in groups or communities and is giving the users the power to report incorrect behaviour and is looking to proactively address those reports when they come up.

\"All the rules and best practices which are already in place are not going away anywhere,\" the person said. \"In fact, if anything with all of the measures, they are only going to get stronger. If there is somebody who is going to repeatedly try to use the community feature as a broadcast group, that is not something that would be encouraged. And we have checks and balances in place, which would address that.\"
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