Whatsapp has been trending today as the social media platform disclosed that it is “now on status”, with this announcement, whatsapp then further proceeded to clarify the misinformation that was being spread regarding their new privacy policy and cleared the news from their end using their own whatsapp feature.
All of the whatsapp users were able to view their status that contained a statement regarding whatsapp’s commitment to user’s privacy.
After the news about the new privacy policy came out, over 100 million users switched to other messaging applications such as signal and telegram as they were even being endorsed by noteworthy personalities including Elon Musk.
With a huge negative response from audience, the management at Facebook at to clear out things. They clarified their stance in a tweet and to further make things clear and to make their message reach every user, they took this step of using their own feature of uploading a status and clarified everything over there once again that they will not be able to read or listen to any kind of personal info of their users and that whatsapp using this feature might be a new things bt their commitment to privacy of users is definitely not new.
In the morning, this status was viewed by a lot of users and there were a lot of hilarious reactions to it and this made #whatsapp trend.