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Translated by: Flutura Gashi-Mehmeti
- June 17, 2025 21:03
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Meta has issued a statement in response to the Iranian government, which has called on citizens to delete WhatsApp.
The tech giant denies Iran's claims that information from the messaging app is shared with Israel, the BBC reports.
A spokesperson for WhatsApp's parent company, Meta - which also owns Facebook and Instagram - said it was "concerned that these false reports will be an excuse for our services to be blocked at a time when people need them most".
The statement says that all "messages you send to family and friends on WhatsApp are end-to-end encrypted, meaning no one except the sender and recipient has access to those messages."
"We do not provide bulk information to any government. For more than a decade, Meta has provided ongoing transparency reports that include the limited circumstances when WhatsApp information has been requested," the spokesperson added.
