Billionaire Tesla CEO and owner of microblogging platform, Twitter, Elon Musk, has slammed Meta-owned messaging app, WhatsApp, saying “it can’t be trusted.”
Following complaints by Foad Dabiri, a Twitter Engineer, who tweeted “WhatsApp has been using the microphone in the background, while I was asleep and since I woke up at 6AM (and that’s just a part of the timeline!) What’s going on?”
Musk responded by quoting the tweet, claiming WhatsApp can’t be trusted.
WhatsApp cannot be trusted https://t.co/3gdNxZOLLy
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 9, 2023
Musk later added that WhatsApp founders left Meta “in disgust” and were vital in building a new messaging service called Signal.
However, WhatsApp responded in a statement that it believed the issue was caused by a bug on Android’s operating system and that it had asked Google to investigate and remedy the problem.
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