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Predicting the Future of Messaging with WhatsApp Head Will Cathcart

What happens next with the 2 billion-plus user messaging app, and the company that runs it.

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Alex Kantrowitz
Mar 04, 2021
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When WhatsApp head Will Cathcart dialed into our call last Friday, his 2 billion user slice of the Facebook empire was in the thick of it, as usual. WhatsApp had just weathered a bungled privacy update that sent panicked users to Signal and Telegram. It was scrambling to make sense of a new Indian law that might force it to break encryption. And it was …

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