Nothing is stopping child sexual abuse imagery spreading on WhatsApp, a safety group has warned.
The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) is calling on Meta, which owns WhatsApp, to do more to protect children and put mechanisms in place.
The group suggested these mechanisms could stop the spread of material like the content sent to disgraced BBC broadcaster Huw Edwards.
A WhatsApp spokesperson said the app’s users had the “ability to report directly to WhatsApp so we can ban any user who shares this heinous material and report them” to the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children.
The IWF is an organisation which helps to detect and remove child abuse content from the internet.
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