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“Once reported,” the platform says, “WhatsApp receives the most recent messages sent to you by a reported user or group, as well as information on your recent interactions with the reported user.” It is hard to see how else this process could work, and what users might expect happens. When those messages are forwarded to WhatsApp, those human reviewers check what has been sent, determining what action (if any) to take. This feature is important for preventing the worst abuse on the internet.” “WhatsApp provides a way for people to report spam or abuse,” the platform confirmed this week, “which includes sharing the most recent messages in a chat. It’s only these forwarded messages that are being reviewed. Hit on the settings for any 1:1 chat and you will see the option to “Report Contact.” If you click on this, you can report the user and you’re told that “the most recent messages will be forwarded to WhatsApp.” You’re told the other user will not be informed, and you also have the option to block the user and delete the chat. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to break the company up.WhatsApp has a long-standing reporting mechanism available to all its users, where you can click to report abusive messages. And it prompted calls from legislators like Rep. While the outage was frustrating for daily users of Instagram and Facebook, it was far more problematic for the millions of people who use WhatsApp as a primary communication tool. Four hours later, Schroepfer tweeted, “We are experiencing networking issues and teams are working as fast as possible to debug and restore as fast as possible.” Meanwhile, the company offered no explanations. Shortly after the outage occurred, Facebook spokesperson Andy Stone tweeted that the company was working to restore access to its apps.

Even Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, nodded to the broad extent of the outage, tweeting that it "does feel like a snow day." Others reported that the badges they use to enter Facebook buildings had stopped working. A number of employees told BuzzFeed News that they could not receive emails from outside addresses. Inside Facebook, the outage wreaked havoc across several crucial internal systems.