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Facebook (Meta) wants you to believe that they bought WhatsApp out of the goodness of their hearts.
Before them, it was an instant message platform that threatened to charge 99¢ a year. I never paid and neither did many others. Maybe some people did? But I’m not sure.
Then Facebook go and pay $21 billion for it and claim it’s private. What do you think? On top of that, the founder who just got paid is waving a red flag shouting from the rooftops, “don’t use it!”