{"id":988227,"date":"2026-01-28T08:56:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988227"},"modified":"2026-01-28T09:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:35:07","slug":"no-merit-headline-seeking-lawsuit-whatsapp-head-trashes-elon-musks-comment-explains-it-is-totally-false","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/28\/no-merit-headline-seeking-lawsuit-whatsapp-head-trashes-elon-musks-comment-explains-it-is-totally-false\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No-merit, headline-seeking lawsuit\u2019: WhatsApp Head trashes Elon Musk\u2019s comment, explains it is \u2018totally false\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta has lashed Elon Musk\u2019s comments on the steaming controversy that involves a lawsuit over WhatsApp privacy claims. Elon Musk, who is helming xAI and X (formerly Twitter), has ignited fresh debate over privacy by declaring WhatsApp \u201cnot secure\u201d and even casting doubt on Signal. In a viral post on X, the statement promotes X\u2019s own chat feature as a safer alternative, just as a major lawsuit accuses Meta of misleading users about WhatsApp\u2019s end-to-end encryption. WhatsApp\u2019s Head, Will Cathcart, has lashed back at Musk, calling it \u201ctotally false\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta has lashed Elon Musk\u2019s comments on the steaming controversy that involves a lawsuit over WhatsApp privacy claims. Elon Musk, who is helming xAI and X (formerly Twitter), has ignited fresh debate over privacy by declaring WhatsApp \u201cnot secure\u201d and even casting doubt on Signal. In a viral post on X, the statement promotes X\u2019s own chat feature as a safer alternative, just as a major lawsuit accuses Meta of misleading users about WhatsApp\u2019s end-to-end encryption. WhatsApp\u2019s Head, Will Cathcart, has lashed back at Musk, calling it \u201ctotally false\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}