Groups with names like "child porn only no adv" and "child porn xvideos" found on the group discovery app "Group Links For Whats" by Lisa Studio don't even attempt to hide their nature.
But artists like Halvorson and Louis C.K. show how group discovery may not only be capable of surprising the audience, but also the artists up on the stage.
Culver tells us that Convore is also designed to be a group discovery platform, where users can search for and find other topic groups that interest them.
Together, these could improve Group discovery while encouraging local- or interest-based branches of Groups to assemble and have more intimate conversations.
Better manual investigation of these group discovery apps and WhatsApp itself should have immediately led these groups to be deleted and their members banned.
It's already working with Google and Apple to enforce its terms of service against apps like the child exploitation group discovery apps that abuse WhatsApp.
But the larger question is that if WhatsApp was already aware of these group discovery apps, why wasn't it using them to track down and ban groups that violate its policies.
WhatsApp group discovery apps featured Adult sections that contained links to child exploitation imagery groupsGoogle and Facebook, with their vast headcounts and profit margins, are neglecting to properly police who hosts their ad networks.
WhatsApp runs semi-independently of Facebook, but could hire more moderators to investigate group discovery apps that lead to child pornography if Facebook allocated more resources to its acquisition.
A spokesperson claimed that group names with "CP" or other indicators of child exploitation are some of the signals it uses to hunt these groups, and that names in group discovery apps don't necessarily correlate to the group names on WhatsApp.
But today, it just put out a "2.1 More Thing" release for both iPhone and Android, including the ability to broadcast "joinable groups" on Twitter and Facebook, better group discovery, data connection speed detection, and special features for people setting up SXSW groups.
