TechScape: Will Meta’s encryption plans be a ‘devastating blow’ to child safety online?

The Facebook and Instagram owner is miles ahead of the competition, say regulators, who suggest that could change when it rolls out default end-to-end encryption for Messenger

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There was a rare utterance from an internet regulator last month: praise for Facebook and Instagram's parent company, Meta.

Australia's e-safety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, described Meta as one of the better detection performers" for reporting child sexual abuse material on its services, making around 27m reports to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) last year. Apple, for comparison, reported just 234.