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Information operations directed at Hong Kong

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1116 points whatok | 1 comments | 19 Aug 19 18:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.289s | source
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Bhilai ◴[19 Aug 19 18:54 UTC] No.20740623[source]▶
I am curious to know how do companies like Facebook control this kind of activity on WhatsApp where there is end-end encryption. I see a lot of propaganda on Whats App being circulated everyday and people keep forwarding such messages into various groups.
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1. the_watcher ◴[19 Aug 19 19:32 UTC] No.20740990[source]▶
It's hard, and it's an explicit tradeoff made when deciding to prioritize secure communication. One thing Facebook did with WhatsApp was limit group size and monitoring forwarding behavior (which can be done via metadata without needing to know the content), but it's an imperfect solution at best.