Over 2 billion people use WhatsApp, it offers end to end encryption that cannot be readily spied on, and it allows people to combine multiple apps into one communication app to centralize communication through that one app.
The article basically repeats the same exact points over and over the entire article and it became a very dull read.
It's more important for people to have secure communication methods than it is to censor 'wrong think.' People being killed or disenfranchised for "wrong think" in oppressive countries is a much bigger deal than someone's feelings getting hurt because their favorite politician was besmirched in a private WhatsApp convo.
Instead of trying to control everyone's speech like the Leninists, North Koreans, Chinese, and Nazis...
Foster private, secure, easy-to-use, communications. The idea or notion that politicians will secretly run private campaigns that are evil or insidious is retarded. Opponents of those political ideologies would quickly expose that behavior. The information age brings "agents of opposition" in every conversation. How can you be 100% sure that everyone you broadcast your political propaganda to will always 100% of the time agree with it? You can't and in fact, you can be 100% sure not everyone will agree with it and will tell the world about it. Especially if it was a private, encrypted, conversation. Streisand Effect is real.
The suggestion of making the core curriculum for children also include the basics of figuring out fake news is key. Children should be shown all the news articles where they claimed Trump said the white supremacists were "good people" and then compare that to Trump's actual words where he clearly was not talking about the white supremacists. That was one of the most dishonest and mass-fake-news phenomena I have ever seen. It was scary how quickly that fake news was spread and to this day, many people who didn't see that conference or read the transcript still believe that falsehood.