WhatsApp announced that they reached 2 billion users the other day. WhatsApp managed to become the company's second largest platform, following Facebook, which reached 2.5 billion users in June 2018.
The mobile messaging app was first released in 2009 and was bought by Facebook in 2014 for $ 19 billion. Reaching 1 billion active users in 2017, WhatsApp emphasizes the importance of encrypting user messages in this regard .
Although WhatsApp is the most popular chat application in the world, it is debatable in many countries. The app's co-founders, Brian Acton and Jan Koum , left Facebook in 2018. The reason for leaving the company was that ads would be included in the application to make money from WhatsApp.
WhatsApp CEO Will Cathcart said the company has no plans to disable encryption. " People have been able to communicate privately with each other throughout history, and we don't think this should be eliminated in a modern society ," the CEO said. However, the CEO added that they would provide WhatsApp's metadata if needed for an investigation.
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