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Losing Facebook Is Bad, but Losing WhatsApp Is Worse
In February 2020, WhatsApp announced it had 2 billion users worldwide.
Alex Castro/The Verge
In the chaos of Monday's Facebook outage, it's easy to lose sight of the company's reach. Not being able to post a new photo to Instagram is an annoyance, but it's not necessarily catastrophic.
Yet for WhatsApp users, especially outside of the U.S., losing Facebook's encrypted messaging service is a life-halting change.
From The Verge
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