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WhatsApp and Instagram owner taken to court for contempt in South Africa | SA News


The Digital Law Company has filed an application to hold Meta Platforms in contempt of court for failing to provide data on individuals posting explicit content of South African school children on WhatsApp.

Should Meta continue to fail to comply with an order to release the alleged perpetrators’ data, the law firm asked the court to imprison Meta’s head of public policy for the Southern Africa region, Thabo Makenete.

This comes after the law firm obtained an urgent order from the Johannesburg High Court compelling…

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