As its user base rapidly expands, the videoconference app Zoom is seeing a rise in trolling and graphic content.
"Zoom has seen a sharp rise in use over
the past few weeks. On Sunday nearly 600,000 people downloaded the app,
its biggest day ever, according to Apptopia, which tracks mobile apps.
The company is currently valued at $29 billion.
But
the platform was built as an enterprise technology tool, not a consumer
social tool. As such, the company was not prepared to moderate user
behavior as other social networks do.
“With
much broader adoption, abuse and misuse will follow, so Zoom should be
getting ready to handle reports and complaints,” Jules Polonetsky, the
chief executive of the Future of Privacy Forum, recently told The Times."
