Since its inception and after its acquisition by Facebook and until now, the chat platform WhatsApp faces the most difficult crisis in its history, which is the crisis that caused tens of millions of users around the world to abandon its platform and move towards competing platforms due to the controversy it recently raised.
It is no secret to anyone that WhatsApp, the popular chatting and instant messaging application that includes more than two billion active users, has indicated its intention to change its usage rules to allow sharing of users' data with the parent company and the rest of its companies, while WhatsApp said that Users have to either agree or leave, which is what prompted many users to leave immediately to competing applications, and the number of departures, according to specialized media, reached tens of millions.
WhatsApp felt during the past days a real threat, as advertising media reported many users who changed their direction towards competing applications, especially Telegram and Signal, who achieved record numbers of migrant users from WhatsApp, this threat is exactly what prompted WhatsApp to review its position, and Twitter was She said in a previous clarification that users misunderstood the new updates on the laws of use, and that they do not affect the privacy of users' messages with friends or family in any way, instead, this update includes changes related to messaging a company on WhatsApp, which is optional, It provides more transparency about how data is collected and used. WhatsApp also confirmed that the app and Facebook do not read users' message logs or listen to their calls, and that WhatsApp does not store user location data or share contact information with Facebook.
But despite this, many did not attach great importance to clarifying WhatsApp, which prompted the company to go to the second step to stop the bleeding of users who leave its platform, as it indicated that the issue was incorrectly interpreted, and at a time when changes were expected to come The new platform will be officially implemented next month, and exactly on February 8th, the company decided to postpone this date until May 15, where it said that it will do its best during this period to explain the truth of these changes to users, and the company said that even after the new laws were adopted Nothing will change.
But the question remains, will WhatsApp succeed in this step by persuading users to return to its application and stop the bleeding of leaving the application towards competitors.
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