Tuesday May 9, 2023, when a user complained that WhatsApp was using the microphone in the background, Twitter CEO Elon Musk claimed that the messaging software cannot be trusted. Elon Musk responded to a user’s Twitter complaint regarding WhatsApp’s use of a microphone in the background by saying that WhatsApp cannot be trusted.
The user 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?”
Elon Musk tweeted as “WhatsApp Cannot Be Trusted“
In the following comments, Elon Musk mentioned that the creators of WhatsApp made significant contributions to the development of Signal after they resigned from Meta/Facebook out of dissatisfaction and starting #deletefacebook campaigns.
Evidently, what they discovered about Facebook and the changes to WhatsApp deeply concerned them.
