WhatsApp. The American company is forced to take some very radical measures at the moment because of the bad situation it is going through, and it does not seem to have found other solutions for its serious problems. More precisely, WhatsApp has announced that it is going to sue all the people who abuse its platform in any way possible, whether it is known to them or not, and the warning is a very serious one, which will certainly be implemented.
WhatsApp. The measure is an extremely serious one since the platform is a source of fake news and gross manipulation, some people ending up being licked in the street because of the lies on the platform. The decision of those at WhatsApp to resort to such measures is still based on the threats of closure that they received in various countries around the world, some of which even have hundreds of millions of monthly active users.
WhatsApp. He will JUDGE you if you do THIS!
WhatsApp. Among the abuses that the company refers to are the fake news distributed on the platform, phishing attacks, or any kind of attacks aimed at spreading malware against people. Attempts to steal accounts, regardless of the method by which the attempt is made, will also be considered abuse by the WhatsApp company, and all people who use them can be sued without any warning.
WhatsApp is committed to using all resources at its disposal (including legal action) to prevent abuses that violate our terms of use, such as automated or mass messaging and non-personal use.
WhatsApp. Everything will start from December 7, when the company announced that the deadline to end these abuses is expiring, and the evidence for the trials will be limited to both what it gathered and the public statements of the attackers. The WhatsApp company will use everything it has at its disposal to support its cases as well as possible in the lawsuits, and the requested damages can be of the order of millions of dollars, or higher, depending on each individual case.
WhatsApp. Normally, regular users should be safe, but it is possible that some innocently distribute links to websites with malicious content, and not only that, and this could at least get them suspended from the platform.