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Billionaire Elon Musk slammed Meta’s WhatsApp Messenger on Tuesday, saying the messenger “cannot be trusted.”
The Twitter leader changed into responding to a Saturday tweet from the social media agency’s director of engineering Foad Dabiri.
“WhatsApp has been using the microphone in the background, while I was asleep and since I woke up at 6 a.m. (and that’s just a part of the timeline!) What’s going on?” Dabiri tweeted, later noting for one user that he has a Google Pixel 7 Pro.
Musk initially replied that it was “weird,” but retweeted the post two days later.
“WhatsApp cannot be trusted,” he said in a quote tweet.
Meta additionally pointed to a tweet from WABetaInfo, an account that gives news and actual-time updates about WhatsApp.
Over the last 24 hours we’ve been in touch with a Twitter engineer who posted an issue with his Pixel phone and WhatsApp.
We believe this is a bug on Android that mis-attributes information in their Privacy Dashboard and have asked Google to investigate and remediate. https://t.co/MnBi3qE6Gp
— WhatsApp (@WhatsApp) May 9, 2023
WhatsApp did no longer respond to Musk at once, but did reply to Dabiri on Twitter. Meta pointed FOX Business to a chain of tweets.
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“Over the last 24 hours we’ve been in touch with a Twitter engineer who posted an issue with his Pixel phone and WhatsApp. We believe this is a bug on Android that mis-attributes information in their Privacy Dashboard and have asked Google to investigate and remediate,” it said.
WABetaInfo said it had previously reported that “this is a false positive from the OS, and some users told it happened after a certain patch – some other apps may experience the same issue.”
