Judge orders WhatsApp, Instagram to stop user posting sexual content of SA school kids →

The Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg has ordered WhatsApp and Instagram parent company Meta to permanently shut down channels publishing sexual content involving South African schoolchildren and identify the person behind them.

Judge Mudunwazi Makamu agreed to the orders sought by the Digital Law Company, which is directed by social media law expert Emma Sadleir, after advocate Ben Winks argued that dozens of children had been victimised by the publication of this material.

They had “no recourse” unless the person behind the publication of this private material was identified, he said.