Given how integrated Whatsapp is in many non-US markets, their statement is spot on. It has nothing to do with propagating the lies of a tech company. It's a

Given how integrated Whatsapp is in many non-US markets, their statement is spot on. It has nothing to do with propagating the lies of a tech company. It's about being stuck in a society that has moved to a single platform because it made itself available as the easiest method long before facebook bought it up. See Also: Weechat in china, LINE in Japan. Living in the US I considering myself lucky that I'm not locked into a singular platform for communcation, payments, services, etc like many others.