Elon Musk says WhatsApp can't be trusted, now he is bringing WhatsApp-like features to Twitter

By Divyanshi Sharma: Elon Musk says that WhatsApp cannot be trusted after a Twitter engineer claimed that the instant messaging app had been using his microphone in the background while he was sleeping. The Twitter employee also posted a screenshot of an Android dashboard to support his claims. Musk, responding to the tweet, wrote that the platform cannot be trusted. On the other hand, the Twitter boss is bringing WhatsApp-like features including voice and video calls to Twitter. Twitter engineer says WhatsApp using microphoneThe Twitter engineer, named Foad Dabiri, shared the screenshot of an Android dashboard on Twitter. From the screenshot, it looks like WhatsApp had been accessing his microphone in the background from 4:20 am till 6:53 am. Dabiri wrote on Twitter, “WhatsApp has been using the microphone in the background, while I was asleep and since I woke up at 6AM (and that’s just a part of the timeline!) What’s going on?” The tweet also earned a reply from Elon Musk, who wrote, ‘WhatsApp cannot be trusted’. However, there is more to this story. WhatsApp’s clarificationWhatsApp, in a tweet, clarified the situation and wrote that the issue was arising due to a bug in android that ‘mis-attributes information
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